Don E. Sears

Top 25 Programming Errors That Kill Network Security by Don Sears No. 25: Race ConditionConsequences: Denial of Service, Code Execution, Data LossEase of Detection: ModerateWeakness Prevalence: MediumTraffic accidents occur when two vehicles attempt to use the exact same resource at almost exactly the same time, like the same part of the road. Race conditions in […]

The U.S. Department of Labor is not happy with one New Jersey-based software company using H-1B visas.Peri Software Solutions, which has offices in Los Angeles and San Jose, Calif., and offshore in Chennai, India, is accused of violating prevailing wage law for a large contingent of H-1B visa employees. According to a Department of Labor […]

CIOs and CTOs plan to spend their budgets when the recession is over on the IT purchases they had to put on hold in 2009, according to a report by staffing company Robert Half Technology, which polled 1,400 technology decision makers. What areas will they spend in? The largest single category of spending, at 37 […]

If you listen to what chief financial officers, chief operating officers and controllers are saying, it’s more bad news for the unemployed, according to a new quarterly study by the American Institute of Certified Planning Accountants and the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. The survey polled 998 financially centric executives between Jan. 27 […]

Aerospace and defense contracting company Boeing gave 60-day layoff notices for 1,020 employees. The bulk of the layoffs will happen in both its Puget Sound, Wash., and Seal Beach, Calif., locations, as well as other U.S. offices. Many of the cuts are information technology workers in Boeing’s Engineering, Operations and Technology unit, according to news […]

The 2009 economic stimulus package has not been proven to have created a whole lot of technology jobs, but that is not stopping President Obama from talking up its importance to the economy of the future. By and large, stimulus funds have been shown to have helped out beleaguered state and local governments, saving the […]

If you haven’t noticed, the average age of the workforce continues to drop. At no time is this more evident than when you ask older workers what it is like to be managed by younger bosses. A CareerBuilder report that polled 5,200 workers found 43 percent of workers who are 35 or older work under […]

President Obama’s first official State of the Union address is a few weeks old, but its message to American companies that operate subsidiaries in Asia has some questioning what direction the United States will go with technology workers, tax incentives and H-1B visas. With an economy slowly grinding its way out of recession and a […]

Technology workers saw a 0.3 percent increase in employment or roughly 12,900 more jobs in January, as reported by TechServe Alliance, which publishes a monthly technology outlook based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. TechServe Alliance, formerly known as the National Association of Computer Consultant Businesses, is a 500-member trade organization. In December, […]

IT workers are due to receive a median 1.8 percent bump in salary in 2010-below the 2.7 percent rate of inflation and the lowest rate in the last five years-according to data from a 2010 salary report from Computer Economics. A similar report from technology job board Dice, in January, showed that in 2009 tech […]

Silicon Valley and the Northern California Bay Area have seen a dramatic change in wages and job opportunities from 2000 through 2008 for high-tech workers, according to a report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ San Francisco office. (PDF) Adjusted for inflation, wages and stock-related pay have been seriously hurt by two bubble economies, companies […]

Job cuts across all industries have reached a five-month high at 71,482, according to Chicago-based outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Retail, telecommunications and pharmaceutical companies are leading the pack in layoffs. The telecommunications sector announced 14,010 in January, said C,G & E. Roughly 13,000 layoffs were announced by Verizon last week as the largest […]