Chris Conrath

E-mail's virus vexation seems to be taking a back seat to another scourge - nspam.

The late 1990s was an ugly period for IT. It was an era of hedonistic acquisition. Companies bought technology, companies bought each other, hell, some companies even bought pipe dreams. Technology was marketed as a panacea that, once plugged in, would blow profits through the ceiling. Billions of dollars worth of new-fangled solutions were bought and sold as a result.

Rene Hamel recently bought a hard drive to install on a machine at work. Hamel, an ex-RCMP officer and vice-president of forensic technology services at KPMG in Toronto, knows a thing or two about retrieving data from computers

With more than 45,000 staff and students, Toronto

In tough economic times companies are constantly on the lookout for ways to cut budgets. As a result, IT sometimes finds itself managing the fort with far less than optimal technology.

A recent Internet security threat report paints a picture of an nincreasingly nefarious cyberspace, though one with an occasional thin nsilver lining.

Edmonton board is reminded that when there is a narrow window of nopportunity, the process becomes more difficult and invariably more nstressful.

In tough economic times companies are constantly on the lookout for ways to cut budgets. As a result, IT sometimes finds itself managing the fort with far less than optimal technology.