Richard Adhikari

As enterprises look to increasing productivity and doing more with less, business intelligence (BI) will move to every desktop in the enterprise. At least, that’s the expectation among the growing number of firms already pushing BI, which has traditionally been the preserve of business analysts. Now, however, insiders see new interest in getting the benefits […]

A new worm has emerged that could be much worse than the notorious Storm worm, which ruled the botnet world for nearly two years. Like the Storm worm, the latest worm, which anti-virus vendor ESET calls W32/Waledac, consists of an e-mail telling recipients they have received an e-holiday card and asking them to click on […]

Spammers often change their subject lines in a bid to escape detection and filters. But there are some tried, tested and true subject lines they keep returning to again and again. For this week, PayPal topped the list of top spam subject lines, being used in three of the top 10. HSBC Bank Canada came […]

What a year it was for enterprise software. Facing slashed budgets but skyrocketing requirements, IT departments were forced to make do with far less than they were used to. For the major software vendors, that meant tightening their belts and, in some cases, rethinking their approach to the market entirely. Yet even with the recession […]

As enterprises implement collaboration applications to increase staff productivity and cut costs, they are increasing the risk of security breaches, according to a survey conducted for Rohati Systems that was released today. The 117 respondents, all high-level IT executives from enterprises of various sizes, have deployed applications such as Web-based Intranet portals, Web 2.0 applications, […]

The worsening economy and the strength of the U.S. dollar hit Oracle, although it still remains well positioned against the competition. Second quarter GAAP total revenues were up six percent year over year (YoY), but net income was down one percent to $1.3 billion, Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) chief financial officer Jeff Epstein said in the […]

In a move aimed at raising its profile in the virtualization market, Sun Microsystems has unveiled version 2.1 of xVM VirtualBox, its open source desktop virtualization solution. This is the third release of the product in the last two years and is almost twice the size of version 2.0 – 30MB as compared to 17MB […]

SAN FRANCISCO – Having hit the headlines by offering mobile messaging for the iPhone and Lotus Notes, Sybase is continuing to bank on its mobile offerings. And why not? According to Sybase chairman and CEO John Chen, mobile will be a $400 million business for the company in 2009. Sybase (NYSE: SY) offers mobile messaging, […]

Microsoft today released a patch for the latest Internet Explorer (IE) browser vulnerability that has been in the news since last week. However, malware authors have already begun pushing out customized variants of the flaw that the Microsoft patch may not address. The vulnerability, rooted in IE’s XML parser, lets attackers execute code on their […]

With data breaches hitting the headlines regularly and reports that regulatory compliance will be tightened up considerably in 2009, monitoring database activity to maintain security is becoming more important than ever. However, most monitoring tools give rise to false positives, costing companies time and money as IT chases down these false alerts. According to Secerno, […]

The cybercriminals who breached the CheckFree bill paying service last week used a combination attack that may be almost impossible to stop. Visitors to the CheckFree site were redirected without their knowledge to a server in the Ukraine, where malware was automatically downloaded into their PCs, Amit Klein, chief technology officer at Trusteer, which protects […]

The massive job cuts caused by the recession will pose a huge threat to enterprise security because insider attacks, like disgruntled former employees, account for half of data breaches. Log monitoring and analysis tools provide poor protection from internal breaches because analyzing their reports is a tedious process, experts say. LogRhythm may have solved this […]