News tagged with confidential data

Hubbub over content rights greets Google Drive

(AP) -- Google is already facing spasms of suspicion and confusion as it tries to persuade people to entrust their personal documents, photos and other digital content to the company's new online storage ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Head for the clouds, feet firmly on the ground

Computer engineers in the US writing in the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems have reviewed the research literature to get a clear picture of cloud computing, its adoption, use and th ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New trial set for June in Oracle, SAP case

A US judge on Tuesday set a June date for a new trial in a long-running copyright infringement case between US business software giant Oracle and its German rival SAP.

Technology / Business

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Interpol swoop nets 25 suspected 'Anonymous' hackers

Interpol has arrested 25 suspected members of the 'Anonymous' hackers group in a swoop covering more than a dozen cities in Europe and Latin America, the global police body said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Stock market network reveals investor clustering

(PhysOrg.com) -- The stock price of a company continuously changes, going up or down depending on the collective activity of a large number of investors. Although this process seems fairly straightforward, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (29) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Chinese hacked into US Chamber: report

A Chinese group has hacked into America's largest business lobbying organization, compromising all data on its servers and information about its three million members, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Protecting confidential data with math

Statistical databases (SDBs) are collections of data that are used to gather and analyze information from a variety of sources. The data may be derived from sales transactions, customer files, voter registrations, medical ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cyber-fraud tops $93 billion a year in Latin America

Fraud in online commerce and theft of confidential data, known as phishing, at banks in Latin America together top 93 billion dollars in yearly losses, an IT conference heard Wednesday.

Technology / Internet

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Security holes discovered in iPhones, iPads

A new security hole has opened up in Apple Inc.'s iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, raising alarms about the susceptibility of some of the world's hottest tech gadgets to hacker attacks.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

German hackers convicted of stealing Lady Gaga songs

Two young hackers were convicted in Germany Thursday of stealing new songs from stars such as Lady Gaga and Mariah Carey and offering them for sale on the Internet, a court said.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sony shares tumble over latest cyber attack

Sony's share price fell more than three percent to a two-year low Monday after the latest online attack against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant targeted its European subsidiary.

Technology / Business

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

EMC's anti-hacking division hacked

The world's biggest maker of data storage computers on Thursday said that its security division has been hacked, and that the intruders compromised a widely used technology for preventing computer break-ins.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 14

Companies beware: The next big leak could be yours

(AP) -- WikiLeaks' release of secret government communications should serve as a warning to the world's biggest companies: You're next.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 02, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Jury orders SAP to pay Oracle 1.3 billion dollars

A US jury has ordered German business software giant SAP to pay US rival Oracle 1.3 billion dollars in damages in a record-setting copyright infringement award.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Oracle wants SAP to pay billions for looted programs

Attorneys for business software giant Oracle want a jury to order German rival SAP to pay billions of dollars for looting its software libraries for competitive advantage.

Technology / Business

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3