Brian Prince

Microsoft is partnering with customers and governments around the globe to combat counterfeit software. Dubbed Global Anti-Piracy Day, the effort includes a series of education and enforcement actions in 49 countries. As part of the strategy, Microsoft has filed 20 lawsuits against software resellers in the United States that it accuses of pushing pirated copies […]

Microsoft has announced that it is suing 20 software resellers in the United States as part of a global anti-piracy initiative. According to Microsoft, all of the cases involve hard disk loading and/or counterfeit software. The products involved include Office 2007 Enterprise, Microsoft Windows XP Pro, Office 2003 Pro and Office 2007 Pro. Five of […]

Google has taken a different tack to improve Web security-it’s going to the Web site owners directly. The effort, announced by Google Oct.16, is a way for Google to warn Webmasters that their sites are vulnerable to hackers. According to Google, the test will focus on 5,000 to 6,000 Webmasters using Google Webmaster Tools and […]

Sybase saw its database business pick up steam in the third quarter of 2008 to the tune of a 15 percent year-over-year increase. The increase was just one part of the good news for the quarter for Sybase, which saw an 11 percent revenue bump overall. In real numbers, total revenue for the third quarter […]

Three of the major identity and access management vendors-Oracle, Novell and Sun Microsystems-put a new horse in the race for control of the security space today, Oct. 20. While Oracle turned its attention towards fighting online threats, however, Novell and Sun kept their eyes on compliance mandates. In the case of Oracle, the emphasis was […]

There has been no shortage of predictions about how much or how quickly the security software-as-a-service market will grow. But what remains to be seen is which security services make the most sense to deliver via SAAS. Messaging security remains one of the most popular security services being offered through SAAS. However, a number of […]

Just as the Storm botnet appears to have died down, the Warezov botnet has once again reared its head. New research from SecureWorks shows the Warezov botnet has begun spamming again-but this time, its tactics have changed. Having apparently defeated CAPTCHA, the bot is using a tool to spew spam via Microsoft’s Hotmail service. The […]

Microsoft released 11 security bulletins for Patch Tuesday Oct. 14 as well as a new measuring stick to judge them by. The “Exploitability Index” appears as a new table on the monthly Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary. Next to each bulletin is an additional rating based on how likely it is that the vulnerability will be […]

Think it’s safe to download a patch from your e-mail? Not so fast. According to a new report by McAfee, cyber-criminals are increasingly capitalizing on users looking to protect their PCs with the latest updates. In its bi-annual Security Journal threat report, McAfee noted a jump in the amount of malicious software posing as applications […]

The data warehousing market has been very busy of late, between the marketing push around the HP Oracle Database Machine and Microsoft’s acquisition of DATAllegro. In the middle of all this sits Teradata, a longtime leader in data warehousing. At its Teradata Partners User Group Conference & Expo in Las Vegas this week, Teradata is […]

Google is downplaying concerns about security issues tied to cross-domain Web application sharing that could leave Google users open to attack. Security researcher Aviv Raff posted general details of a cross-domain Web application sharing flaw to his blog Oct. 10. According to Raff, the vulnerability affects several Google applications available across Google subdomains, including those […]

Apple has released a massive update for Mac OS X 10.5 and Mac OS X 10.4.11 that plugs security gaps in 20 Mac applications and features. The update, released Oct. 9, is available on Apple’s Web site. Several of the patches deal with Mac OS X technologies, such as a fix for an issue in […]