Keeping   information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's   most formidable challenge, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - February 06, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Police cannot secretly search suspects' computer hard drives over the Internet, a German court ruled Monday.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - February 05, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - February 02, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Office 2007 gives familiar applications a welcome makeover on both the interface and file-format level.
                    
			            - By Keith  Ward
 - February 01, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Lockbox with backup tapes containing data on 130,000 Aetna members taken in break-in at insurer's outsourced billing services firm. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - January 24, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Bankers association reports that hackers have made fraudulent transactions using hacked TJX customer data.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - January 24, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    TJX Cos., operator of T.J. Maxx and Marshalls discount stores, said Wednesday its computer systems were hacked late last year and customer data has been stolen.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - January 18, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    After shipping the first release candidate, or RC1, of SQL Server 2005 Compact 
  Edition in mid-November, Microsoft quietly began shipping RC1 of the product's 
  documentation, which has been updated to reflect the database's recent renaming, 
  in late December.
                    
			            - By Stuart J. Johnston
 - January 02, 2007
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Spanish police arrests 6 suspects for allegedly hacking financial data.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - December 21, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Systems administrator alleged to have planted logic bomb that could have wiped out critical patient data. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - December 19, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    UCLA breach latest among several universities to have student records hacked. Breach went undetected for more than a year, affects about 40,000 students. 
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - December 17, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Exam discounts are back and "second-shot" offer returns in a new form, dubbed "Exam Insurance." 
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
 - December 12, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and other companies are preparing to push for data-privacy legislation next year.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - December 08, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Ecma International approves Microsoft Office format as international standard for data.
                    
			            - By The  Associated Press
 - December 07, 2006
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Microsoft puts four new exam in front of testers.
                    
			            - By Michael  Domingo
 - December 07, 2006