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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.
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EMI Group Plc.
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monitoring
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.
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Sony Corp.
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Apple Computer
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Dell
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Motorola Inc.
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jacket
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Utah
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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.
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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.
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Cisco warns customers of site breach
August 3, 2005
Company sends e-mails to site's users and advises people to change their passwords.
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Cisco Systems Inc.
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password
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Trend Micro customers suffer weekend mayhem
April 25, 2005
IT workers are furious after working extra hours to fix an SP2 slip-up by the security company.
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Raimund Genes
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Trend Micro Inc.
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information technology worker
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incident
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compensation
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Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
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Japan
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Europe
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Service Pack 2
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person
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antivirus
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Microsoft Windows XP
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Microsoft Windows
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.
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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.
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Fires stop with Apple and Dell, insists Sony
August 24, 2006
After two massive recalls of batteries using its technology, Sony says no other PC company is affected.
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Lenovo
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Gateway Inc.
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HP
IM threats rising sharply, reports confirm
April 5, 2005
Instant-messaging attacks increased 250 percent in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, new research finds.
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Time Warner Inc.
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research
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Boston College reveals alumni data breach
March 17, 2005
School alerts more than 100,000 former students of an attack on a database that holds records used for fund raising.
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Panasonic joins notebook battery recall
September 5, 2006
Third company announces battery recall, but its recall program is much smaller than those for Dell and Apple.
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Apple Computer
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Sony Corp.
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Dell
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Japan
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camera
Illinois university hit with security breach
July 5, 2006
Data on more than 180,000 people is at risk after hackers get into servers at Western Illinois University.
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ChoicePoint data theft widens to 145,000 people
February 18, 2005
Database break-in affects far more consumers than originally acknowledged. Factor in 750 cases of identity theft.
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California
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asset
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Laptop theft exposes Hotels.com data
June 2, 2006
Notebook taken from inside car of Ernst & Young employee reopens the issue of compromised clients and customers.
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Expedia Inc.
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audit
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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.
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