Richard Adhikari

Once again, social networking site Facebook has been hit by the Koobface worm, which has been used to attack it several times since July. This latest attack, discovered by security vendor Fortinet, sends a message to users’ Facebook friends urging them to click to view a video uploaded to either Google’s Picasa photo-sharing site or […]

Battered by its highly expensive lawsuit with Oracle and shaken by the uncertain economy, German software giant SAP has pulled its guidance for 2009 and taken a step back in its predictions for the rest of 2008. During the company’s third-quarter earnings call this week, co-CEO Henning Kagermann blamed the uncertain market and reduced customer […]

In a move that could have saved thousands of potential victims of identity theft, Yahoo techs have fixed a flaw in the online news and advertising company’s HotJobs Web site, one of the leading online job sites with thousands of subscribers. The flaw, a cross-site scripting vulnerability, was discovered by Internet services company Netcraft, which […]

…and things that go bump in the night, guid Laird preserve us, goes an old Scottish poem. Just the thing for Halloween, I thought. And, in that spirit (pun intended), comes an announcement from Hewlett-Packard that it has launched What Haunts Your Data Center — an education campaign featuring six animated data center characters that […]

Despite the explosion of data and the large numbers data breaches, enterprises are not doing enough to encrypt their backup data, according to a study conducted jointly by security vendor Thales Group and Trust Catalyst. The results of the study, released yesterday, show that backup tapes are neglected in administrators’ security efforts. Of the 330 […]

The appeal of Twitter, the free social networking and micro-blogging service, is that it lets people stay in touch with their friends in pretty much real time. That fun tool can also be put to nefarious uses, according to an addendum to the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion periodic newsletter, available on the Federation of American […]

Opus Una Source: IBM SAN FRANCISCO — IBM is developing a new product built around the browser as an application platform. Using PCs equipped with cameras and microphones, the application lets users share data live and in real time with high-definition quality. The project, code named Opus Una, will “let you collaborate using audio and […]

Apple CEO Steve Jobs Source: Reuters Reports today surfaced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has identified an 18-year-old as the culprit behind the fake story of Apple CEO Steve Jobs having a heart attack. The bogus news story, published three weeks ago on CNN’s user-generated news site, iReport.com, sent Apple’s share prices […]

So, recession is the word on everyone’s lips. Everyone but the mooks leading this country who just can’t bring themselves to pronounce the ‘r’ word, despite the financial industry meltdown, people having their homes foreclosed and the computer industry quaking in its collective boots as it looks towards the future. Why, back in February, the […]

UPDATED: Microsoft continues to see revenue trending upward, despite the tumultuous economic climate and concerns over IT spending. The company today announced revenues of $15.06 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, ended Sept. 30 — an increase of almost $1.3 billion, or 9 percent, from the $13.7 billion it rang up during the […]

Amazon.com’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) entity has put its Elastic Compute Cloud, widely known as EC2, into full production, and is moving to make it more attractive to the enterprise. EC2 lets users create, launch and add server instances as needed through a Web interface, and users pay only for the resources they consume. With […]

As the financial crisis persists and companies snap up their peers at discount prices, they might be getting more than they bargained for. That’s because apart from the regulatory and financial issues, a merger or acquisition also involves a host of technology challenges. Just in the financial sector alone, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have been […]