Sharon Gaudin

The best corporate IT departments are successfully completing far more projects, while spending less money and employing fewer workers, according to a new study. This is the information coming out of a new report from The Hackett Group, a business advisory firm that benchmarked 200 companies over the last two years. The report finds that […]

Many major companies are making crucial business decisions based on flawed data, according to a new study from Gartner Inc. More than 25 percent of critical data within Fortune 1,000 companies is incomplete and inaccurate, say analysts from Gartner, a major industry research firm based in Stamford, Conn. Although many executives aren’t even aware that […]

Government economists report that the high-tech industry is still losing jobs, but the loss rate is slower than it was a year ago. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released numbers today showing that Computer Systems Design and Related Services, a category that encompasses a wide range of tech jobs, lost 3,900 jobs positions in […]

Outdoing most analysts’ worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month. After a two-month drop in spam, the number of unsolicited bulk email skyrocketed in April, bringing the saturation number up to record levels here in the U.S. and across the world, according to MessageLabs, Inc., a security company based […]

Virulent viruses and worms aren’t the only things to be watching out for. Security analysts say browser-based attacks are escalating in frequency and damage. And now there are numbers to back up the warnings. The Computing Technology Industry Association, a global trade association based in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., reports that a new survey of 900 […]

Now that Symbiot, Inc. has released information on its plans to enable companies to counterattack digital threats, some security analysts have stepped up their concerns that it could cause more problems than it solves. Symbiot’s founders are looking to fight back against hackers, virus writers and denial-of-service attacks by launching counterattacks. It’s no longer enough […]

Last year more — and more dangerous — viruses raced across the Internet than ever, according to a new study. The good news is that while more companies were infected last year than in 2002, the growth in infections is actually lower than in recent years. ”I think it’s a good news/bad news thing,” says […]

Six years from now, one quarter of traditional U.S. IT jobs will be done offshore, in countries like India and China, according to new predictions from researchers at one of the top industry analyst firms. Today, an estimated 5 percent or fewer of U.S. IT jobs have been offshored, according to Diane Morello, vice president […]

A new security company is up and running with the idea that it’s simply not enough to protect a corporate network anymore. They say it’s time to fight back. But some members of the security industry worry that giving IT managers the tools to attack their attackers could cause far more serious problems than it […]

An increasing number of worms and viruses are blended threats, giving them multiple ways to get into a network and multiple ways to damage it, according to a new study from Symantec Corp. The report also shows that the number of vulnerabilities has leveled off over the past year. And that sounds like good news […]

Spam is increasing at such an alarming rate that even though it accounted for 24 percent of all email a year ago, it is expected to make up 80 percent of all email being sent around the world by the third-quarter of this year. And several anti-spam experts say the hundreds of thousands of open […]

A new variant of the virulent MyDoom worm has been found in the wild, launching what one analyst fears may be a vicious attack against Microsoft Corp.’s Web site. Ken Dunham, director of malicious code at iDefense, Inc., a security and anti-virus company, says analysts there just found the variant, which they’re calling MyDoom-C, and […]