Lisa Vaas

In the wake of incidents such as TJX’s potentially massive loss of data to theft, reported in January, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to find that 90 percent of companies plan to plug in new technology to secure electronic copies of intellectual property in the coming year. That was one finding of a report […]

Microsoft’s UAC in its Vista operating system release was meant to signify that finally, the company has gotten serious about securing Windows by limiting a user’s rights during day-to-day computer usage. It’s come to signify something much less than security or trust in the minds of some security experts, though. Security expert Joanna Rutkowska kicked […]

Patent attorneys are applauding Oracle’s proactive pounce on EpicRealm, a company many consider to be acting like a patent troll. “Rather than sit back and wait to be sued, or watch as EpicRealm lines its litigation coffers by extracting settlements from smaller companies, Oracle is going on the offensi1ve to protect its business,” said Bobbie […]

Security researchers have uncovered a critical client/server protocol flaw in IBM’s DB2 database. Imperva’s Application Defense Center reported on June 12 that it had discovered the vulnerability—which allows any attacker with network access to the database server to bring it down or to run arbitrary code—in DB2 Version 8. The flaw’s severity is magnified by […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Far into the future—or even into the misty reaches of forever—as long as one PeopleSoft customer wheezes over his beloved human resources application, and as long as one J.D. Edwards loyalist frets over a newly discovered flaw, Oracle will be there, President Charles Phillips announced during his opening keynote for Oracle OpenWorld in San […]

Since the ChoicePoint headlines in February, the number of reported data breaches of personal information has exploded to the point that the tally now reaches a staggering 50,324,480 records exposed to potential theft and fraud. The breaches have affected Congress as fertilizer to daylilies, with a new identity-theft law sprouting every few weeks, the most […]