Brian Prince

Greenplum is changing its pitch around its data warehousing technology, talking up what the database company calls its “enterprise data cloud” initiative. The idea behind pushing an EDC (Enterprise Data Cloud) platform is to enable enterprises to create and manage data warehouses and marts that can be deployed across a common pool of physical, virtual […]

Twitter officials are working on a way to verify users of the microblogging service are who they say they are. In a blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the company is experimenting in summer 2009 with a beta preview of a service it is calling, “Verified Accounts.” Details about the service were scarce, but […]

McAfee has outlined its network security strategy, tracing a bull’s eye around companies like Cisco and Check Point Software Technologies. Unveiling three new firewall-related products, McAfee officials said the key to their strategy will be integration and unified management. To that end, McAfee has integrated its Firewall Enterprise (formerly Secure Computing’s Sidewinder), Firewall Enterprise Control […]

T-Mobile is still investigating a claim that hackers swiped a large amount of data from the company’s servers. On June 6, a message was posted on the Full disclosure mailing list in which attackers claimed to have hacked T-Mobile and stolen information. In the message, the alleged hackers posted a massive amount of data that, […]

The Sears Holdings Corporation has agreed to settle charges made by the Federal Trade Commission alleging that the corporation was not upfront about its use of spyware. According to the FTC’s administrative complaint, while Sears told consumers the software would only track their “online browsing,” the software also monitored their online secure sessions — including […]

Google has some advice for the average Mac and Linux user – don’t download Chrome just yet. The versions of the Chrome browser released last night via Google’s development channel still have some kinks in them and were only made available to allow developers to kick the tires, Google officials said. Those who download them […]

The economy may be in a downturn, but identity and access management as a service appears to be gaining steam. According to analysts, the market is growing steadily among both enterprises and smaller organizations alike. The reason-cost savings and an end to the implementation and management efforts tied to IAM projects. Such was the case […]

Security researchers at Trustwave have uncovered an effort by cyber-thieves to use malware to infect and loot ATM machines in Eastern Europe . Trustwave, which focuses on security and compliance for the payment card industry, discovered the malware while investigating ATM breaches in Russia and Ukraine. According to the company, roughly 20 ATMs were infected […]

Microsoft has 10 security bulletins coming June 9, its biggest Patch Tuesday release of 2009 so far. Of the bulletins, six have the highest rating of “critical.” Two of those six address remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system. The other critical bulletins affect multiple versions of Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word, Excel, […]

A search engine isn’t worth much if the results it produces lead users to malware. An obvious statement no doubt, but one Microsoft kept in mind with its new -Bing’ search engine. Following the footsteps of other search engines, Bing may not break new ground when it comes to security, but it doesn’t really fall […]