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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Wednesday that health insurer Health Net lost financial, health and personal information of nearly 450,000 state residents and failed to inform consumers for six months.
Data from The Associated Press' interviews about concussions with five players from each of the NFL's 32 teams. A total of 160 players, almost 10 percent of the league, were questioned in the unscientific sampling conducted from Nov. 2-15:
Halloween has come and gone, but your U.S. government is focusing some attention and a bit of money provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on bats. Not the baseball kind, but the furry, flying, cave-dwelling creatures more often associated with trick-or-treating than federal spending.
A federal judge has refused to approve a class-action settlement over contact information stolen from online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.
Data center and Internet exchange service provider Equinix Inc. has agreed to buy rival Switch & Data Facilities Co. in a cash and stock deal worth about $689 million, the companies said on Wednesday.
Government jobs data are only estimates. The "official" numbers don't include everyone who wants and needs a fulltime paycheck.
T-Mobile Sidekick phones that lost the information stored on them now can at least get the contact lists back.
AT&T promises "more bars in more places" — but which places? Verizon Wireless proclaims "it's the network" — but does the network cover you well in the places you live, work and travel?
Software supplier Ebix Inc. said Thursday that it acquired software maker E-Z Data Inc. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $50.3 million.
The settlement over contact information stolen from online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. is nearing approval, but the more than 6 million current and former customers affected will have to wait a little while longer.
In an effort to offer users a broad set of tools for tracking and researching their investments, msnbc.com is launching new stock quote pages.
The Toyota Corolla remained the top-selling vehicle under the Cash for Clunkers program, according to data released Friday by the government.
Massachusetts is planning to "democratize the data" behind its public transportation network.
Auto dealers have made Cash for Clunkers deals worth $1.81 billion, according to data released Wednesday by the federal government.
Some American Express card members' accounts may have been compromised by an employee's recent theft of data, the company said Thursday.
Electronic publisher LexisNexis has told more than 13,000 people that a Florida man accused of helping run a racket for an organized-crime family may have gained access to their personal information through a former customer of a LexisNexis subsidiary.
Hope that you never have this experience: You get in a fight with your spouse or partner, they fling your smartphone 26 stories down a high-rise building's garbage chute and you pray that the data on that phone survives, even if the device itself does not.
Cornell University officials are investigating the theft of a school computer that may have compromised the personal information of about 45,000 current and former students, faculty and staff.
Supporters and critics of laws seeking to crack down on companies collecting and selling data on doctors' prescribing habits say the issue has come up in more than 20 state legislatures.
So-called data-mining companies that collect information about the drugs doctors prescribe asked an appeals court Tuesday to stop Vermont from enacting a law next week restricting their work.
An internal military memo published Monday confirmed that computer disks lost at a British Royal Air Force base contained sensitive files on the private lives of senior officers, including answers to vetting questions about drug abuse, extramarital affairs and the use of prostitutes.
More than 6 million current and former customers of online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. will be able to benefit from the settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over the theft of client contact information.
Officials at the University of California at Berkeley say hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, and the personal information of up to 160,000 people may be compromised.
University of California, Berkeley, officials said Friday that hackers infiltrated restricted computer databases, putting at risk health and other personal information on 160,000 students, alumni and others.
A federal judge has ruled the IRS can serve a summons on First Data Corp., its affiliates and subsidiaries for information on suspected tax evaders.
Comprehensive health data on California kids available at your fingertipsKidsdata.org recently expanded to offer data for all cities, school districts, and counties in California. These statewide data are available for a wide range of topics measuring the health and well being of children, and more data will be phased in throughout 2010.
You think St. Lucie County has weird newsStaff at the Web site analyzed nearly 2,000 strange news stories from the last year. Tampa ranked 20th to claim the title as the Florida city with the most weird news stories, but Fort Pierce and Port St.
Bit.ly Now Summarizes Your Link Data For Even Better MetricsPerhaps the top reason to use Bit.ly (beyond obviously shortening links) is for its analytics. The service makes it easy to see all sorts of data about your short URL links going out to services like Twitter.
This is my third or fourth recent article on the misrepresentation of jobless claims data (symptomatic of a general problem in the way the mainstream media, and the financial press). What was the actual, factual NEWS? It was that the weekly jobless claims number fell to 5 …
Google Gives You A Privacy Dashboard To Show Just How Much It Knows About youThe more Google products you use, the more data it collects about everything you do online—your search history, your emails, the blogs and news sites you read, which videos you watch on YouTube, your news alerts, tasks, and even shopping lists.
Deforestation: Not So Bad for the Climate?New research shows that destroying the world's tropical forests doesn't lead to the amount of man-made emissions as previously claimed by a U.N. study.
2009: The year your data died -- With more and more data in the Cloud, we're starting to see how fragile the Internet can beData disasters at Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook all in the same week mean one thing: Your data -- and the Net itself -- are a lot more fragile than you may think
It may not feel like it for those who are out of work or deep in debt, but Elkhart is one of the 79 U.S.
Scores of doctors alerted about possible ID theftAt least 800,000 doctors nationwide are being warned about possible identity theft because of a stolen laptop in Chicago.
Job data to show stimulus aided teachersState officials say President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan has spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs.
DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM streetA two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought — a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM per year.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Time telescope' could boost webResearchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.
Water Polluters Near YouAcross the nation, the system that Congress created to protect the nation's waters under the Clean Water Act of 1972 today often fails to prevent pollution.
iPhone T-Mobile US Carrier Support BundlesThe carrier support bundles that are floating around the net that enable tethering are incomplete or broken. I have created my own bundles. They do not require jailbreaking and can be installed via iTunes. You will find bundles for different account types.
Elance Network Security BlundersElance just suffered its second network security issue, sending thousands of emails containing private information to third parties. Read more: #ixzz0QBUZshYw
The question is an honest one, perhaps someone can answer it for me because I don't get it.
If You're Not Seeing Data, You're Not SeeingIt's not possible today, but the emergence of more powerful, media-centric cellphones is accelerating humanity toward this vision of "augmented reality," where data from the network overlays your view of the real world.
Man tried to steal 130M credit card numbers Federal prosecutors have charged a Miami man with conspiring to pull off the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States.
HEADLINE: Consumer Inflation Tame In July Oh wait there's more.... Over the past 12 months, prices dropped the most in nearly six decades. I feel so much better knowing this, but why do I feel "pinched". Maybe this tells the story better.....
UK - Two convicted for refusal to decrypt dataTwo people have been successfully prosecuted for refusing to provide authorities with their encryption keys, resulting in landmark convictions that may have carried jail sentences of up to five years. The government said today it does not know their fate.
Vanish Uses BitTorrent to Make Data DisappearEncrypts messages with a secret key and then distributes pieces of it across random nodes so that as peers leave the swarm it gradually degrades over time, allowing users to regain control over data stored on the web like Facebook PMs, e-mails to others, and even simple posts.
Do Elite Colleges Produce the Best-Paid Graduates? Forget U.S. News's academic rankings and Playboy's party-school list. For some prospective college freshmen, here's the important question: Will I make more money if I go to Harvard, or if I go to Harvey Mudd?
Scientists find ways to make electronic data self destructWorried that the college binge drinking photos posted on the internet will reappear to haunt during a job interview? Cheer up. Researchers have found a method that makes electronic data self destruct itself.
Does Google Know Too Much About You?Many people have a lot of information just sitting there on Google's servers including personal appointments (Calendar), correspondence (Gmail), work and personal documents (Google Docs) and online reading habits (Google Reader).
FlowingData Graphs Your Life Via TwitterEver wonder how many cups of coffee you drink each month, or how many times you'll log into Facebook this year? Perhaps you'd like to not only track your caloric intake, but to know what times of day it peaks and troughs.
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