Nearly Half Of U.S. Tech Companies Outsource Offshore

3/3/2008

This article lists a whole bunch of statistical data about companies having their business done offshore or outsourced offshore. One statistic said that 79% of their business operations are done out of the United States. Another statistic is that 64% of tech companies in Silicon Valley said they source services or production of products outside the U.S. Of U.S. technology , 74% are offshoring manufacturing, 51% are offshoring programming and IT services, including internal services and those offered to external customers, 49% are offshoring research and development, 45% are offshoring distribution, and 35% have outsourced call centers outside the U.S.. Another statistic that the article said was that the number one place that U.S. tech places offshore is to India (60%), and the list continues to South Asia(50%), China (46%), West Europe (21%), and then Latin America, which is (19%).


I think that with companies begining to outsource everything out of the country, it's going to be harder for fresh graduate students to find jobs and opportunities because we are now competing with the world. Before all the outsourcing began, we were only competing within our own country, but now we're competing against the world. Also another though is that the other countries are willing to work for less too.


http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/outsourcing/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206901364

10/21/2008

Cyber criminals move focus to web

This article talks about how hackers and online criminals are starting to target their attacks more on the web than in the previous years, e-mail. They use the web to attack their victims by putting harmful trojan horses on the web pages. Since a lot of users at work surf the net during their sparing time or watch streaming videos online, they can accidently fall onto one of these harmful pages with trojan viruses getting ready to be loaded on their corporate work computer. If the corporate work computer is loaded with a trojan, hackers/cyber criminals can use that trojan to give them information to access the corporate network. Also a new statistic in 2006 said that trojan horses outnumber windows viruses and worms 4 to 1.

I think that users should usually surf on safe websites only and they should be aware of bad websites that would have malicious viruses on there. It is sometimes obvious if a website is okay to surf on or not. Also, with new technology, google and yahoo usualy picks up if a website is bad to surf on or not.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6290413.stm

10/6/2008

Watch out for cyber-criminals
10/2/2008

This article talks about the National Cyber-Safety Alliance saying that hackers are creating "Bots" that are installed onto a person's computer. The bot records personal information and sends it to a hosted computer, where it is recorded for the hackers to use and sell their information. The bots are also becomming a bigger and new threat to the personal computer and personal information.

I think that with hackers creating more problems, such as bots, there will always be security there to protect our personal information. Another thing is that we need to be more aware if there is malicious software installed onto our computer. Some of these ways of figureing out if there is malicious software on our computer is if it is running slower than usual.
http://www.crime-research.org/news/02.10.2008/3604/