Sharon Gaudin

It appears the implosion of the dot-com industry is slowing with only 93 online companies shutting down or going bankrupt in the first six months of this year, compared to 345 in the first half of 2001. “We are beginning to see signs that the market’s irrational fear of the Internet, or what we would […]

With the amount of spam escalating and filling email inboxes and mail servers to overflowing, companies need several weapons in the battle to stem the tide. “Spam is a problem for companies,” says Ken Schneider, chief technology officer at Brightmail Inc., an anti-spam company based in San Francisco. “It can create a hostile work environment […]

The amount of spam hitting company networks in the past several months has exploded and those fighting the spam battle say it’s also smuttier than ever. Today, email inboxes are being flooded with about 400% more unsolicited bulk email, or spam, than they were back in September, according to new numbers published by Brightmail Inc., […]

Big corporate layoffs are creating a nightmare of security risks as IT workers scramble to close down network connections and plug up dangerous holes as employees are walked out the door. For companies like bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp. and now financially embarrassed WorldCom Inc., laying off thousands of employees means there simply may be […]

Network administrators are besieged today with a growing list of security risks, and analysts warn that too often they get caught up in battling one or two vulnerabilities and remain blind to a league of others. “There are so many risks to deal with, it’s an overwhelming job,” says Dan Woolley, a vice president at […]

Steve Nyman, director of information security at Pfizer Inc., is the man in charge of protecting the research, chemical formulations and financial information at the $35 billion research-based pharmaceutical company. Nyman is no stranger to security. A former FBI agent, he investigated white-collar crime and organized crime, as well as managed the agency’s intelligence program […]

After two years of coming in below analyst expectations, 2003 should be the year that the enterprise finally starts buying and deploying handheld devices, turning what has been the geek’s gadget into the makings of an enterprise powerhouse. And IT administrators, looking for more control of what’s moving around their network, just might be pushing […]

Microsoft Corp. is working to quickly retire old, security-weak code in its Windows operating system, but users running current or old versions won’t be able to take advantage of it until they buy into upcoming versions. Steve Lipner, Microsoft’s director of security assurance, said in an email interview this week that any old code containing […]

A worm that recently hit the Internet is another reminder that the new generation of viruses and worms at hand is building in complexity and potential for damage. Frethem.E is the latest variant on a worm designed to take advantage of a security vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer. The worm, which only attacks Windows […]

Following Microsoft Corp.’s announcement this week that it will move more quickly to retire old code in its Windows operating systems, industry analysts have been left wondering how it will affect users’ legacy applications, as well as security. Steve Lipner, director of security assurance for Microsoft, said in published reports that Microsoft will ax old […]