Richard Adhikari

For the second time this week, Adobe Systems has released a set of critical vulnerability patches. An Adobe (NASDAQ: ADBE) spokesperson told InternetNews.com that the vendor released six critical patches for Flash Player 9 on Thursday and eight patches for five-month-old vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.3 on Tuesday. Vulnerabilities in Adobe applications are […]

Should rivals be worried about Salesforce.com’s move into Web site creation and hosting? Analysts are saying the news is no threat to established players like Lotus Notes and SharePoint. Salesforce.com announced the new direction at its Dreamforce 2008 user conference this week. And CEO Marc Benioff took a cue from his former boss Larry Ellison […]

President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night’s election. But Obama’s online presence has attracted some problems, too. Hackers are sending out spam e-mails in English and one in Spanish linking to a Web site purporting to contain a video showing an interview with Obama’s advisors. Clicking on […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft and Google are escalating their battle to win hearts and minds of enterprise users in the cloud. Just days after Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced its delivery of lightweight versions of its Office applications for the Web, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) came out with one of its own news about Google Apps. The […]

SAN FRANCISCO — As it moves more strongly into the cloud, Salesforce.com is also moving strongly into making collaboration easier. “Our vision is to give the same power, flexibility and completeness that we have in Salesforce.com to our customers,” George Hu, applications and marketing executive vice president at Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), today told an audience […]

When social networking applications first emerged, they were seen as a way for people to connect more easily with others. Love, fellowship and general goodness were supposed to follow. And they did, to some extent, as we ran around friending others. Now, though, with corporations getting their tentacles into social networking sites, the concept of […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com chairman and CEO Marc Benioff plans to make the software as a service (SaaS) company even more prominent in the cloud. Speaking to a packed house at the company’s Dreamforce 2008 conference today, he discussed tie-ins with other cloud players such as (NASDAQ: GOOG) Facebook and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). Plus, it […]

The RSA FraudAction Research Laboratory is putting the pressure on the notorious Sinowal Trojan . According to the laboratory, this Trojan, which it says is also known as Torpig and Mebroot, has stolen and compromised login credentials from about 500,000 online bank accounts and credit and debit cards over the course of nearly three years. […]

With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA — a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot, according to the MessageLabs Intelligence Report today. One breach has resulted in fake blogs on Google’s Blogger division, which may contain malicious […]

Enterprise communications systems vendor is making moves to fill its vacant CEO position today, announcing that it’s hired JDS Uniphase chief Kevin Kennedy to take over the company’s top spot in January. Kennedy will be joining Avaya from JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ: JDSU), a communications measurement and optical products manufacturer where eh currently serves as CEO […]

As the global economy sinks deeper into crisis, security experts are warning that online scams are on the rise — particularly “lottery” scams, in which a fraudster claims recipients have won lots of money but requires an up-front payment to assist in processing or transfers. In response, Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) have […]

…the wise begin scanning the sky for omens. And what’s weirder than politics? So here’s Presidential candidate John McCain, campaigning frenziedly in the remaining eight red states (irony of ironies, that staunchly Republican states are red, what, haven’t they heard of the slogan anti-Communists used in America in the 1950s, “Better dead than Red?”) and insisting he’s […]