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Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer describes the soon-to-be-released Vista operating system as his company's biggest technology project to date. While he won't even guess how much has been spent on Read more...

Another laptop has gone missing and this time the device holds confidential information on 2,400 residents at the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base. According to the base commander, who would not Read more...

As the current scandal involving Florida lawmaker Mark Foley reveals, the trail of instant messaging communications can be a huge piece of evidence in criminal cases. Instant messaging Read more...

It isn't just the big companies dealing with data theft. Sentry Insurance, a Wisconsin-based company, has reported the theft of data, including names and social security numbers, on over 100,000 Read more...

Hey, it's been almost two weeks since the latest laptop theft, and that may have been a new record if Armstrong World Industries hadn't reported that a laptop housing personal data on over 10,000 Read more...

Right on the heels of the infamous data loss at the Veterans Affairs agency comes the disclosure that the Department of Energy has been hacked, with the thief taking the social security numbers Read more...

In what would appear to be clearly an opposite approach given recent news reports about the value of telecommuting to the business bottom line, HP has announced it's calling its IT staff Read more...

As Sun Microsystems' newly crowned CEO Jonathan Schwartz is getting ready to take over from Scott McNealy, one of his highest priorities is making sure people know he isn't about to decimate the Read more...

Mark Hurd's been at the helm of Hewlett-Packard for a year now, and during his talk at a recent economic council event, he told attendees that his company is flirting with the quest to be the top Read more...

Hewlett-Packard is scrambling to protect employee data and accounts following the theft of a laptop from Fidelity Investments a week ago containing confidential data on nearly 200,000 employees. Read more...