Larry Barrett

Securing data networks is important enough for the majority of companies to hire outside security firms to audit their systems but only about one in three bother to have their network audited every year, according to a new survey conducted by VanDyke Software and independent researcher Amplitude Research. At time when enterprise companies, government agencies […]

Oracle on Tuesday announced it will purchase Mountain View, Calif.-based HyperRoll, a maker of financial reporting acceleration software, for an undisclosed cash amount. Company officials said the deal is expected to close sometime later this year. In a release announcing the purchase, Oracle said all of HyperRoll’s employees are expected to remain with the newly […]

World of Warcraft players desperate for a new mount to traverse the online role-playing game’s fantasy world are getting a reality check from hackers who have devised a clever pop-up phishing scam to spread malware. Security technicians at F-Secure Security Lab on Tuesday posted a blog entry Tuesday detailing the latest scam making its way […]

Virtualization software improves server data availability, reduces an organization’s datacenter footprint and makes it easier to recovery data in the event of a disaster, but, according to a new study, it can cause big problems for an organization that doesn’t implement strong operational controls throughout the process. The study, conducting by leading virtualization software vendor […]

More than 163,000 women who participated in a mammography research project at the University of North Carolina are just now finding out that personal information — including their social security numbers — was accessed by hackers sometime in 2007. The data was just a portion of the information compiled by the university’s radiology department as […]

McAfee and Adobe Systems on Monday said they will team up to deliver new software that protects sensitive company information such as regulatory compliance and intellectual property data both within and outside the enterprise. The integrated data loss prevention and enterprise digital rights management software will leverage McAfee’s (NYSE: MFE) expertise in policy-based data classification […]

Appian on Monday released its latest business process management offering, Appian 6, an on-premise and on-demand suite that now includes one-click import and export functionality for moving process applications to and from disparate computing environments. BPM software choreographs multiple business processes and enables different applications and technologies employed in a distributed computer network to work […]

Twitter’s 140-character message limit is just enough space for the 55 million people who visited the site last month, but hackers are now exploiting this space limitation to spread a variety of malware through the microblogging community in quick order. Symantec Connect’s security team on Friday posted a blog entry warning tweeters to be especially […]

Despite a slew of disastrous, high-profile identity theft cases in the past few years, companies conducting transactions both online and in their brick-and-mortar stores still aren’t doing enough to protect their customers’ personal and financial data, according to a new survey released by Imperva and the Ponemon Institute. The survey, which queried IT security professionals […]

Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadive for years told anyone who would listen that the big enterprise players like Oracle and SAP just don’t get it. If Thursday’s third-quarter earnings report is any indication, he might have an even larger audience for his views in the months and years to come. The middleware provider delivered an upside […]

NetSuite on Thursday announced that iPhone fanatics can now download a mobile enterprise resource planning (ERP) suite to access sales dashboards, order records and a handy click-to-call feature. NetSuite (NYSE: N), which has already delivered its SuitePhone business management applications for iPhone users, also provides a variety of business apps for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile […]

Venture capitalists invested $5.3 billion in privately held companies in the second quarter of 2009 — the lowest amount invested since 1997 — but several pre-IPO Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies are garnering these limited funds and quite a bit of buzz.   In fact, VCs invested more cash last quarter in health care startups than in technology […]