Richard Adhikari

As the recession bites deeper, vendors are beginning to feel the pinch and are cutting staff. Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is reported to have trimmed one percent of its workforce, which totals 85,000 worldwide. Meanwhile, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is reported to have laid off more than 5,000 contract workers, and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is said to […]

When California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) re-introduced legislation on data breaches and individual privacy last week, enterprises were already trying to get ahead of the bills. For example, enterprises are increasingly tying data loss prevention (DLP) functions into their identity and role management products. Take Computer Associates (NASDAQ: CA), which just announced last week that […]

As the economic crunch deepens, spammers are working harder to relieve people of their money – antivirus vendor MessageLabs reports that finance-related spams in the first seven days of the year more than trebled year over year. MessageLabs is part of security vendor Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) which bought the firm last October for $695 million. […]

In a particularly cynical move, spammers are sending out e-mails purporting to be about the fighting in Gaza, which has drawn international attention because of the hundreds of civilian casualties. The spams, which appear to be news items from CNN, contain news about the fighting and a link to a fake CNN news site. Recipients […]

One year after trying unsuccessfully to introduce legislation on data breaches and protection of individual privacy, California Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is trying again. This week, she introduced Bills S.139, the Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act and S.141, the Social Security Number Misuse Prevention Act. Bill S.139 would require federal agencies or businesses […]

In the wake of two well publicized zero-day exploits of Microsoft software, spammers have revived an old attack – sending out a fake e-mail from Microsoft urging recipients to click on the links to patch their systems. The message, which says it’s a Windows Live critical update from Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), bears the Windows logo […]

Following news that it had moved up to No. 3 on The Spamhaus Project’s list of the world’s worst spam problem networks, Google said it has rectified most of the problems. Spamhaus, an international non-profit that fights spammers, had said that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) made its list because the search giant had 31 spam-related problems […]

Almost a year after it announced the beta of Lotus Notes 8.5 for the Mac, IBM has unveiled the finished product yesterday at Macworld 2009. Notes 8.5, for Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) Mac OS X 10.5 — AKA “Leopard” — has several Web 2.0 features, including integration with calendars from Google, Yahoo and other public Internet […]

Google has moved up to Number Three on The Spamhaus Project’s list of the world’s worst spam problem networks. Last month, the search giant hit the top 10 list for the first time in last place. Spamhaus’ list shows Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has 31 unresolved abuse-related issues, including various types of fraud and hosting known […]

Just one day after hackers broke into the accounts of 33 Twitter users, including President-elect Barack Obama, spammers have launched attacks using fake profiles of celebrities. One attack is on the LinkedIn social networking site for professionals, where the spammers put up a nude picture with a celebrity’s name and a fake profile and links […]

OnlineNIC, the cybersquatter against which telecommunications giant Verizon was awarded a record $33.15 million judgment recently, is one of the largest domain name registrars in China, InternetNews.com has learned. According to the records of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses for the […]

Users of the Twitter micro-blogging service are being warned to change their passwords after a round of phishing incidents hit thousands of Twitter users over the weekend. In addition, the company said in a blog post today that it discovered 33 Twitter accounts had been “hacked,” including CNN’s Rick Sanchez and President-elect Barack Obama. “We […]