News tagged with social security

Regulators probe bank's role in Facebook IPO

(AP) -- Regulators are examining whether Morgan Stanley, the investment bank that shepherded Facebook through its highly publicized stock offering last week, selectively informed clients of an analyst's negative ...

Technology / Business

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Nasdaq glitch confuses investors of Facebook IPO

(AP) -- Some investors who thought they had bought Facebook shares at the opening of trading were left without knowing for hours whether they had received the shares.

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created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Facial recognition software could reveal your social security number

According to a new study which will be presented August 4 at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, technology has made it possible to identify and gain the personal information of strangers by using facial recognition ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Facebook stocks up for Google fight

As Facebook and Google jockey for dominance of the Web, the social networking titan's $5 billion stock offering will give it a hefty warchest for the ongoing fight, analysts said.

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created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook users get graphic images in spam attack

Facebook said Tuesday that a "coordinated spam attack" was responsible for graphic images appearing in the news feeds of some members of the world's largest social network.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Social Security's IT system could benefit by joining the cloud, scientist says

The Social Security Administration (SSA) should restructure its already massive information technology (IT) systems so they can be readily scaled up, much like the systems used by Google and Amazon, William L. Scherlis, professor ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Social security numbers can be predicted with public information, researchers find

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have shown that public information readily gleaned from governmental sources, commercial data bases, or online social networks can be used to routinely predict most — ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

New data spill shows risk of online health records

Until recently, medical files belonging to nearly 300,000 Californians sat unsecured on the Internet for the entire world to see.

Technology / Internet

created Aug 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Facebook offers rewards to security bug hunters

Facebook began offering rewards of $500 or more on Friday to security researchers who identify vulnerabilities in the social network.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 30, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 9

An invitation to crime: How a friendly click can compromise a company

"Hey Alice, look at the pics I took of us last weekend at the picnic. Bob". That Facebook message, sent last fall between co-workers at a large U.S. financial firm, rang true enough. Alice had, in fact, attended a picnic ...

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created Mar 13, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 3

Facebook leaked keys to account data: Symantec

US computer security firm Symantec has said that Facebook accidentally left a door open for advertisers to access profiles, pictures, chat and other private data at the social network.

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created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

EyeLock brings biometric security to your websites

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biometric security is always a field of interest for those people who need to keep your data secure. Currently, it is used in a wide variety of high security applications, mostly by large ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3 | with audio podcast weblog

Software helps parents oversee children on Facebook

Internet security firm Check Point on Tuesday launched software that lets parents watch over offspring on Facebook without being "friends" at the online social network.

Technology / Software

created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Security firm finds smartphones lacking in security

(PhysOrg.com) -- viaForensics, a computer security firm, has undertaken an exhaustive study to determine just how secure data is on smartphones; their results show that data such as login names, passwords, account numbers ...

Technology / Software

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Secure, synchronized, social TV

Network coding is an innovative new approach to network design that promises much more efficient use of bandwidth, and MIT researchers have made seminal contributions to its development. But in recent work, ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Social security

Social security primarily refers to a social insurance program providing social protection, or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment and others. Social security may refer to:

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