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A legislative audit in Kansas has raised questions about the security of state computer networks and whether agencies are vulnerable to cyber attacks like a recent one against U.S. government Web sites.

It may be hard to believe, but every week close to a dozen laptop computers are left behind at Sea-Tac Airport.

South Korea is learning more about the mysterious cyber attacks that targeted the country and its ally the United States, but the ultimate question of who the instigators are remained elusive.

A government audit in Kansas has raised questions about the security of passwords in state agencies' computer networks.A new report from the Legislative Division of Post Audit says it cracked 39 percent of one unnamed agency's passwords within five minutes using software.The auditors reviewed password policies and strengths for five agencies: the ...

You should probably know where you are. But in case you don't, you can now find out using Google Maps' new My Location service.

Retail giant Toys R Us has apologised to a mother and her eight-year-old daughter after they came across pornographic images on a computer in one of its stores.

The past few days a newly discovered flaw in the Internet Explorer web browser has been making its rounds across the internet.

New Jersey is overhauling its driver testing system. The Motor Vehicle Commission announced today that Robbinsville-based New Jersey Business Systems has been awarded a contract valued at about $4 million to modernize the system.

Costco Wholesale Corp on Thursday reported an in-line 6 percent fall in sales, hit by a slide in demand during the recession for higher ticket items such as cameras and cell phones.

SUN VALLEY, Idaho - Eric Schmidt spent his first six years as Google's CEO resisting a push by the company's co-founders to develop their own operating system for personal computers.

The fourth annual Sales Tax Holiday is scheduled for Aug. 7-9, providing three full days of tax breaks on clothing, school and art supplies and computer purchases.

Apple should be nervous about Google's move into the operating system market, some analysts said today.

The developers of the LiveAndroid project have released the second alpha version of their software, which allows users to try out Google's mobile operating system without having to install it on a handset.

July 8, 2009 A rapid but superior method for computerized face recognition could revolutionize security systems especially if it can see through disguises, according to research published in this month's issue of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications .

South Korea's national intelligence agency said Wednesday that the hacker attacks on the web sites of government agencies earlier in the day appear to have been "elaborately planned" by a group of people.

Nearly a decade after a State Department laptop containing highly classified information disappeared in an embarrassing security lapse, the agency is still unable to account for all of its portable computers, a government report said Wednesday.

Alloy Software, Inc.TM, a leading provider of service and asset management software solutions, today announced it has partnered with The Winvale Group a global GSA Schedule and government contracts consulting company headquartered in Washington, D.C. The partnership will enable Alloy Software to meet the increasing demand from government ...

If Asus starts to do well, we are all in trouble. That's just a race to the bottom.

The promotions manager at the casino at Yonkers Raceway has been indicted on charges she arranged for friends and relatives to win contests.

Google is developing a new operating system for laptop computers in its boldest challenge yet to Microsoft's control over people's computing experience.