Info storage leader goes deep with latest acquisition.
- By Lee Pender
- June 23, 2006
A hacker broke into the Agriculture Department's computer system and may have obtained names, Social Security identification numbers and photos of 26,000 Washington-area employees and contractors, the department said.
- By The Associated Press
- June 22, 2006
Ohio University said Tuesday it has suspended two information technology supervisors over recent breaches by hackers who may have stolen 173,000 Social Security numbers from school computers.
- By The Associated Press
- June 21, 2006
A laptop containing the Social Security numbers and other personal data of 13,000 District of Columbia employees and retirees has been stolen, officials said.
- By The Associated Press
- June 19, 2006
As new disclosures mount about government surveillance programs, computer science researchers hope to wade into the fray by enabling data mining that also protects individual privacy.
- By The Associated Press
- June 19, 2006
The Redmond software giant released 12 patches -- eight of which are deemed "critical" -- as part of its regularly scheduled monthly security update.
- By Becky Nagel
- June 13, 2006
Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has contained a malicious program aimed at the millions of people who use its e-mail service, which ranks as the world's largest.
- By The Associated Press
- June 13, 2006
A prominent Microsoft Corp. blogger who sometimes bluntly bashed the software behemoth is leaving the company to join PodTech.net, a Silicon Valley video blogging startup.
- By The Associated Press
- June 12, 2006
A hacker stole a file containing the names and Social Security numbers of 1,500 people working for the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency. </p><p>
- By The Associated Press
- June 11, 2006
Finally. Wednesday night, Microsoft released the broad public beta, also called the Customer Preview Program (CPP), opening up testing floodgates for the long-awaited replacement for Windows XP to literally millions of consumers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 08, 2006
AOL is releasing free software to automatically check whether you have the latest security protection on your Windows computer.
- By The Associated Press
- June 07, 2006
Microsoft this week disclosed new features coming in BizTalk Server 2006 Release 2 (R2), including integrated support for radio frequency identification (RFID) devices.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- June 06, 2006
Microsoft Corp. said Monday that its Internet security software will be included with Qwest's high-speed Internet service.
- By The Associated Press
- June 06, 2006
One of the world's most notorious spammers has settled lawsuits with the state of Texas and Microsoft Corp. that cost him at least $1 million, took away most of his assets and forced him to stop sending the nuisance e-mails.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2006
Hundreds of people waving picket signs and skull-and-crossbones pirate flags demonstrated in Stockholm on Saturday against a police crackdown on a popular file-sharing Web site that had millions of users worldwide.
- By The Associated Press
- June 05, 2006