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RFID safe for medical monitoring?

June 26, 2008 Dutch scientists find that the tracking-and-tracing chips can interfere with hospital equipment, thus putting patients in danger. TAGS: medical device, EMI Group Plc., RFID, incident, medical equipment, patient, scientist, monitoring

Accenture says federal probe looming

July 10, 2004 The technology services giant says the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission plans an informal investigation of an incident involving the company. TAGS: Accenture Ltd., incident

FBI probes network breach at Stanford

May 26, 2005 Computer system security breach may have put the personal information of nearly 10,000 people at risk. TAGS: incident, Stanford, social security number, Social Security, university, personal information, California, security

Flaming LAX laptop was a ThinkPad

September 20, 2006 Lenovo confirms that one of its laptops caught fire, but it doesn't yet know if Sony batteries were inside. TAGS: incident, Lenovo, ThinkPad, battery, Sony Corp., laptop computer, notebook computer, Apple Computer

AT&T hack exposes 19,000 identities

August 30, 2006 Hackers access personal data on thousands of customers who used the carrier's online store. TAGS: AT&T Corp., online store, incident, data security, credit card

Report: Cell phone explodes in trousers

October 8, 2003 A consumer group charges that a Dutch supermarket employee is the second person to be injured by a malfunctioning Nokia phone in the past two months. TAGS: Nokia Corp., incident, cell phone, battery

Cisco warns customers of site breach

August 3, 2005 Company sends e-mails to site's users and advises people to change their passwords. TAGS: Cisco Systems Inc., incident, vulnerability, password, researcher, security, e-mail

Exploding cell phone shocks 911 dispatcher

February 10, 2005 Motorola phone burns through emergency worker's jacket pocket and explodes, filling the room with smoke. TAGS: Motorola Inc., jacket, incident, Utah, cell phone, battery, handset

Laptop theft puts data of 98,000 at risk

March 29, 2005 PC stolen from UC Berkeley graduate admissions office held sensitive data on thousands of people, stretching back three decades. TAGS: social security number, incident, Social Security, data loss, graduate student, theft, school, university, laptop computer, personal information, security

Laptop thief may go to prison for life

June 29, 2007 A man who met a woman through an online dating service, stole her laptop, and was convicted of burglary is facing 31 years to life. TAGS: woman, username, laptop computer, incident, house

Stolen Boeing laptop held ID data on 382,000

December 14, 2006 Former Boeing employees, some retirees could be at risk of ID theft after a notebook goes missing. TAGS: theft, incident, Social Security, laptop computer, social security number, identity theft, notebook computer, worker, server

T-Mobile: Hacker had limited access

January 13, 2005 Wireless carrier denies that a recent hacker had the run of its system, saying only 400 customers had their information accessed. TAGS: T-Mobile, SecurityFocus, hacker, incident, wireless carrier, mobile phone

Police Blotter: Fake gay HotorNot profile draws suit

July 13, 2007 HotorNot.com profile saying man was gay and used crack led to "constant" ribbing from co-workers--and a suit claiming it led to post-traumatic stress disorder. TAGS: Police Blotter, court document, British Petroleum Co plc, Louisiana, incident, profile, ship, operator

H&R Block blunder exposes consumer data

January 4, 2006 Company inadvertently prints Social Security numbers on promotional mailings, but says security risk is low. TAGS: social security number, Social Security, incident, identity theft

Wells Fargo computers stolen

November 3, 2004 Identity thieves may have obtained information on thousands of Wells Fargo mortgage and student loan customers. TAGS: Wells Fargo & Co., mortgage, incident, bank, equity, Atlanta, laptop computer, password

Report: Rise in virus attacks costs firms dearly

March 19, 2004 Not only did companies suffer more virus infections last year, but they had to also spend more--an average of almost $100,000--to cure them, according to a new survey. TAGS: ICSA Labs, virus, virus infection, computer virus, incident, virus attack, antivirus, survey, server

RIM offers explanation for massive outage

April 20, 2007 After two days of silence, Research In Motion finally provides some details of what wiped out its BlackBerry e-mail service. TAGS: Research In Motion Ltd., failover, BlackBerry E-Mail, outage, RIM BlackBerry, backup system, cache, incident, cause, subscriber, data center, North America, backup, e-mail, database

How to floss your security system

November 15, 2003 Diana Kelley of Computer Associates says that managing security patches is like flossing teeth--and a lot harder to pull off than it sounds. TAGS: patch management, SQL Slammer, incident, patch, security, server

Microsoft photo prompts blogger's regret

November 3, 2003 A long-term temp says the software giant fired him after he posted a photograph on his Web site of Macintosh G5 computers being delivered to the company's Redmond, Wash., campus. TAGS: campus, incident, policy, Redmond, Apple Macintosh, photograph, blog, Microsoft Corp.
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