Richard Adhikari

The fight by Terry Childs to have a court dismiss three of the four felony charges he is facing for allegedly hijacking San Francisco’s fiber optic wide-area network last year has been prolonged. Childs appeared in court Thursday for a motion hearing, but the San Francisco Superior Court has re-scheduled the hearing for February 13, […]

Microsoft has launched two enhancements to its security offerings and revealed a strategy shift that could further shake up the competition in the antivirus sector. The company made the second beta of its Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) available for download. This follows its release yesterday of Forefront Security for Exchange Server Service Pack 1 […]

SAN FRANCISCO – As the recession bites deeper into companies’ earnings, they should leverage social networking and other Web 2.0 technologies to enhance customer relationship management (CRM) systems to make them more effective, said Paul Greenberg, president of research firm 56 Group LLC. “CRM is a strategy, not just a software or technology or processes […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) controversial policies on search and seizure of electronic devices at U.S. borders is facing a new round of criticism — this time, from the department’s own data privacy advisers. In the draft of a letter to DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, the department’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee is […]

As Microsoft reconsiders relaxing its stance on how Windows handles users’ requests for administrator privileges, a new study finds that doing away altogether with administrator rights could have removed 92 percent of the company’s critical vulnerabilities in 2008. These include critical vulnerabilities — that is, known security holes that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) recommends patching immediately […]

Terry Childs, the rogue system administrator who made headlines after locking up San Francisco’s fiber optic wide-area network last year, is fighting back on a new front. Childs recently filed a claim against the city of San Francisco alleging that he was wrongfully placed on administrative leave on July 9 by a supervisor, Richard Robinson. […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Sun Microsystems, in the midst of a reorganization to reverse its recent losses, is inching toward the launch its own cloud computing service. Lew Tucker, chief technology officer of Sun’s (NASDAQ: JAVA) cloud computing business unit, made the announcement with Sun’s CEO and President Jonathan Schwartz at the SugarCRM conference here. “We […]

SAN FRANCISCO – SugarCRM is ramping up plans to be take on rival Salesforce. At the company’s annual SugarCON conference today, it made several announcements that at least one analyst thinks puts it solidly in the conversation with other big name customer relationship management (CRM) players. Among the key announcements were cloud connectors for Zoominfo […]

We all know that opening e-mail from unknown senders is a major security no-no. But how about visiting your bank’s Web site? Or your favorite online business magazine? According to a new study from IBM, even those activities pose growing danger to Web surfers. The company’s latest X-Force Trend and Risk report found that businesses’ […]

A just-released study concludes that the cost of data breaches to businesses is rising from both internal negligence and the actions of third parties. The overall cost of data breaches is also rising. In 2008, the overall average cost to respondents was more than $6.6 million per breach, compared to $6.3 million in 2007 and […]

A contract worker at Fannie Mae, a government-sponsored enterprise that helps Americans buy houses, has been charged with planting malicious script that would have taken down all the organization’s 4,000 servers this Saturday morning, January 31. Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana pleaded not guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to one […]

Although SAP has had a good year, fear of the increasingly harsh economic climate has led it to announce it will lay off 3,000 employees worldwide. “We must not assume that in 2009 product revenue will be increased,” co-CEO Henning Kagermann said during a press conference Wednesday at SAP’s (NYSE: SAP) Walldorf, Germany headquarters on […]