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India's social ills soothed by outsourcing leaders?

Insight perspective India's successful tech executives are beginning to focus on social problems. Could this be just what the country needs?

Thursday, August 13 2009 03:32 PM

Tags: IT outsourcing, Leadership, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, India, income tax, Saritha Rai, insurance, co-founder, bank

Give public biometrics the finger

Reviews Like it or not, fingerprint scanners are becoming ever more widespread. Are they more secure? No.

Monday, October 17 2005 09:27 AM

Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap

News Adobe is launching an online community with a word processor and file sharing, while adding Flash and interactive maps to Acrobat 9.

Tuesday, June 03 2008 08:33 AM

Tags: Software, Multimedia, Web services, Security, Google Inc., 3D, Adobe Acrobat, bank, Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF

Report: US Social Security numbers can be predicted

News Researchers say they have proven that it is possible to predict Social Security numbers knowing the state and date of birth.

Tuesday, July 07 2009 11:33 AM

Tags: Security Management, Local Government, Data mining & analysis, Domain names, Authentication, IP, social security number, IP Address, Social Security, Carnegie-Mellon University

Expert: iPhone 3GS crypto is easily cracked

News Encryption functionality of the iPhone 3GS is essentially "broken" in protecting sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers, says forensics expert and iPhone developer.

Monday, July 27 2009 10:28 AM

Tags: Authentication and encryption, Applications and tools, Network security, Apple Inc., Video, social security number, Social Security, financial, Apple iPhone, credit card

FBI: Cloned debit cards used in worldwide scheme

News Officials say hackers breached payment processor network to get data, and then made fake debit cards that others used to withdraw millions of dollars from ATMs.

Friday, February 06 2009 12:03 PM

Tags: Network security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, ATM, FBI, payroll, Tribune Co., social security number, Computer, payment

US National Archives offers reward for missing hard drive

News Missing external hard drive at the National Archives contains names and Social Security numbers of White House visitors and staffers during Clinton administration.

Thursday, May 21 2009 09:08 AM

Tags: Storage, Data security, Staff, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, social security number, Social Security, personally identifiable information, hard drive, White House, agency

Hacker Mitnick may sue AT&T over data breach

News Kevin Mitnick's mobile account gets breached. AT&T allegedly says it's not at fault and plans to drop his contract and not compensate for damages. Now he may sue.

Friday, August 21 2009 09:39 AM

Tags: Authentication and encryption, Hacking, Security, Colombia, social engineering, computer, AT&T Corp., network, Hacker, Web

What's your identity fraud risk level?

News Free My ID Score service assesses how at risk consumers are of being victims of identity fraud.

Thursday, June 11 2009 09:52 AM

Tags: Hacking, Data security, Social Security, phone, payment processing, monitoring, network, identity fraud, U.S., credit card

Start-up launches identity theft search service

News Dubbed StolenID Search, the service lets anyone with an Internet connection search a database with more than 2 million credit card and Social Security numbers.

Wednesday, January 24 2007 11:48 AM

Tags: Security, Authentication and encryption