Businesses that receive a court order for data similar to the one reportedly?handed to Verizon?by an intelligence agency have no choice but to comply and to take comfort in their immunity from lawsuits, an expert says.? In April, the ...
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Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Vietnam and the U.K. have disbanded a ring that allegedly sold online credit card details since 2007. The ring, which sold the credit card information through two websites, is said to have caused over ...
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Google is facing some tough questions from Congress over the privacy concerns raised by Glass, its fledgling augmented reality system for recording and receiving information on the fly. But on the ground at the company's I/O conference for ...
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High unemployment and the continued slowdown in economic growth in the Southern European crisis countries in particular is still hampering economic development in the European Union (EU). While the countries moving towards recovery are ...
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Spanish steelmaker Grupo Alfonso Gallardo has announced its intention to launch a workforce reduction program within the scope of its efforts to trim output levels in line with slack local demand for long steel products. In detail, the ...
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From January to March 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 5,809.2 billion yuan, up by 20.9 percent year-on-year in nominal terms (actual increase was 20.7 percent after deducting price factors), the ...
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At universities today, Cobol is mostly taught as an elective, and even then it's likely offered at less than one in four schools. For most students, this means the odds are high that they will attend a school that does not offer Cobol. ...
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a warning for organizations that post a lot of business and personal information on public web pages and social media sites: Don't do it. Phishers, the agency said in an alert this week, look ...
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A federal court in Chicago this week granted class action status to a lawsuit accusing comScore, one of the Internet's largest user tracking firms, of secretly collecting and selling Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, passwords ...
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A site that published the private information and credit reports of several celebrities and other public figures last week went offline on Sunday. The last person to have his alleged private information exposed on the site was CIA director ...
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The Office of Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has disputed a finding by the agency's Inspector General that several VA centers routinely transmit unencrypted sensitive personal data over the public ...
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Skeptical consumers, take heed: If you receive a notice that your personal data has been breached, pay attention and take free self-help steps to protect yourself from identity fraud. Data-breach notifications have become an increasingly ...
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Dr. Esmael Adibi, economist with Chapman University, was so popular when he addressed attendees of the American Architectural Manufacturers Association (AAMA) a few years ago that he was invited back this week to the association’s ...
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U.S. consumers experienced the highest level of identity theft in three years in 2012, although much of the fraud losses were absorbed by banks and merchants, according to a new survey. Incidents of identity fraud affected 5.26 percent of ...
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EzPaycheck 2013 is the simple, but flexible payroll software for small businesses and accountants. The new version was updated with the latest federal and state tax tables and forms to speed up 2013 payroll jobs. LOUISVILLE, KY, February ...