Larry Barrett

Twitter on Tuesday said it had to reset passwords for “a small number of accounts” after the microblogging site was targeted by a phishing attack. The site said that attackers had attempted to steal the login information of users who had used their Twitter password username and password to sign up for an untrusted third-party […]

Sophos is the latest security software vendor to weigh in on the malware epidemic plaguing social networking sites. In a report released today, Sophos said that 72 percent of more than 500 companies surveyed believe sites like Facebook and Twitter pose serious risks to their companies’ data. Sophos’ “Social Security” report found that IT executives […]

IBM on Wednesday acquired Initiate Systems, a privately held developer of data integrity software applications for the healthcare and government markets. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Chicago-based company’s multi-domain master data management (MDM) applications help customers share information, improve data quality and easily access patient and clinical data. “With the addition […]

Cyber attacks like the high-profile Operation Aurora incident that targeted Google, Adobe Systems, and two dozen other U.S. companies are becoming the rule rather than the exception, according to a new survey commissioned by McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. More than half (54 percent) of 600 IT executives surveyed said their […]

Virtualization software maker VMware delivered stellar fourth-quarter sales and earnings this week, but analysts are already laying odds on which software companies it will acquire this year as it builds out its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy. Technology investment research firm 451 Group this week offered up a list of potential takeover candidates, including the likes of […]

It took Oracle 30 years to cobble together all the component pieces it needed to become the modern equivalent of IBM at its technological and entrepreneurial peak in the 1960s. With the Sun Microsystems acquisition finally completed, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has now built the company he always envisioned and he isn’t wasting any time […]

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) paid out more than $127,000 in rewards to a total of 24 sources who reported cases of software or digital content piracy in 2009. The SIIA, a trade association for the software and digital content industry, has stepped up its efforts in recent years to stem the illegal […]

Microsoft and Intuit on Wednesday said they will integrate their respective cloud platforms in an effort to encourage software developers to write new applications for the financial reporting software firm’s QuickBooks software. In addition to merging the cloud-based Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) Partner Platform with the Windows Azure platform, Intuit will install Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) cloud-based […]

BMC Software on Tuesday announced it’s now making its Remedy IT management software suite available on demand for enterprise customers looking to complement their on-premise applications with a cloud-based offering. Remedy ITSM On Demand will be available some time in the second quarter of this year. For now, BMC is mum on the new service’s […]

McAfee (NYSE: MFE) on Thursday said a new and previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer software provided the opening hackers needed earlier this week to break into the networks used and operated by Google and as many as 20 different high-profile corporations. In a blog entry posted Thursday afternoon, McAfee CTO George Kurtz […]