Sharon Gaudin

A new e-mail scam is ‘eating up’ corporate bandwidth and employees’ time. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, known as the Naked Chef, is the subject of the hoax which started hitting inboxes in the United Kingdom early this week. The e-mail claims to contain a copy of a new Oliver cookbook, entitled ‘Naked Chef 2’. Penguin […]

The series of Bill Gates email chain letters is topping the charts as the most prevalent scam on the Internet, choking corporate in-boxes, clogging bandwidth and causing headaches for IT managers. The Bill Gates email has a string of variants, some going back several years and a few brand new ones just going out in […]

Job losses in the high-tech sector decline again in June, as the overall U.S. job market got some much-needed relief from the layoffs that had been ravaging it for more than a year now. The computer industry lost 3,473 jobs in June, while telecommunications lost 5,528. The two sectors combined lost 54,278 jobs between January […]

A new email hoax is serving as a reminder to IT managers that they need to educate end users about staying alert to online scams. Sophos, Inc., an anti-virus software company based in Lynnfield, Mass., is reporting an email chain letter that is tricking people into wasting their own time, cluttering corporate inboxes around the […]

Do you know what’s sitting on your network? Probably not, according to storage and security experts. Any IT manager who thinks his network is holding nothing but customer records, financials and billing information is really out of touch, say industry watchers. In actuality, the average network just may be holding more emails from sweethearts, more […]

IT leaders in the United States continue to hold tightly to the purse strings, spending below their budgets for the third month in a row. According to a Gartner Inc, survey of 20,000 members, IT decision makers spent 87 percent of their budgets in May. This past March, IT spent even less — 83 percent […]

The high-tech sector, which has been slammed with heavy job cuts for the past two years, seems to be getting a break. The cuts are still coming but the numbers are lower than in recent quarters, mirroring the overall U.S. economy. Telecommunications and the computer sector announced 54,278 job cuts from January through May. That […]

Software piracy has declined around the world, decreasing 10 points over the past eight years, according to a new study. The piracy rate for commercial software dipped down to 39 percent in 2002, compared to an all-time high of 49 percent in 1994. The Business Software Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based international association of software publishers, […]

The security world has experienced a hat trick of sorts. On Sunday, May 25, while Americans celebrated a long Memorial Day weekend, the world record for overt digital attacks in one year was broken, according to mi2g, a digital risk tracking company based in London. That means in this month alone, the world records for […]

IT workers suffered nearly a 10 percent drop in pay rates in the first quarter of this year, according to analysts at Yoh Company, a technology staffing firm based in Philadelphia. The Yoh Index of Technology Wages measured an overall increase of 1 percent for technology workers in Q1 of 2003 compared to the same […]

Sunday, May 4 was a record breaker. This past Sunday suffered more digital attacks than any other day on record, according to security firm, mi2g. May 4 saw a total of 2,576 verified and successful digital attacks, which reportedly included the penetration of private, corporate and government computers online, Web site vandalism, denial-of-service incidents, and […]

Worldwide server shipments saw a 10 percent increase in the first quarter of this year, according to a new report from Gartner, Inc. Shipments totaled 1.2 million units the Q1 with Hewlett-Packard retaining the top spot in the worldwide ranking with 29.1 percent of the market, reports Gartner, a major industry analyst firm based in […]