Carol Levin

Spam and viruses are enough to worry about, but now online fraud is reaching epidemic proportions. Consumers logged over 100,000 Internet fraud complaints last year—double those of 2001—according to the FTC. And identity theft jumped almost 80 percent from June 2002 to June 2003, says research firm Gartner. The total cost of identity theft over […]

Call it the principle of unintended consequences. The Internet boom wasnt just a party of paper profits, after all; it was also a period of intense programming productivity. After bingeing on technology in the 1990s, companies are now laden with bloated application portfolios—growing 50 percent in the last year alone. This has led to a […]