Techspedia™

One week after a breached corporate health care company refused to pay extortionists, the criminals now are seeking money from the corporate clients whose employee data might have been exposed.

St. Louis-based Express Scripts said on Tuesday that a limited number of its clients–which include government agencies, unions, and employers–have …
Originally posted at News - Security
The [...]

[Read more →]

The customer database of Express Scripts, a company used by employer health care services to provide prescription medicine by mail, has been breached. In a twist, the company said it learned of the breach in “a letter from an unknown person or persons trying to extort money from the company.”
…
The Rest Of The Story [...]

[Read more →]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

These are tough, dangerous times, so if you’re in the market for a flashlight it’s probably true that you want it to be rugged enough to get your money’s worth, and to hold up under whatever world-ending abuses you and (and your torch) may encounter. Enter 5.11 Tactical’s Light for Life UC3.400 [...]

[Read more →]

Jeffrey Young, via the The Wired Campus blog- Chronicle, featured a story about this year’s EDUCAUSE Conference. Snippets: Educause conference was as big as ever. The organization, which focuses on higher-education, drew more than 7,300 people to its annual meeting, but the sluggish economy was evident in the exhibit hall — many technology companies that [...]

[Read more →]

Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter-by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular Mechanics Magazine …

a2a_linkname=”Inside [...]

[Read more →]

Data Center Challenges That Companies Face Today Posted by Amy Nutt (0) Comment by Amy Nutt As the hub of the information technology department, data centers are an integral part of daily functioning for most companies. Preserving your data keeps your company running, and any [...]

[Read more →]

There’s one thing I love about parties, never mind that it is formal or otherwise. Number one, there’s always some sort of finger food action going on, and once you’ve sampled everything three times over, you more or less have saved yourself money for a meal outside. The other benefit would be the free flowing [...]

[Read more →]

The creaking electricity grid got a shot in the arm on Tuesday from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which is leading a million investment in smart-grid start-up Silver Spring Networks.

The money will fund the company’s expansion globally, Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr said in …
The Rest Of The Story at CNET [...]

[Read more →]

Memory chipmakers are fighting for their life.
The memory chip market–and industry–is caught in a particularly brutal downward price spiral that is threatening the viability of even the largest players.
“Memory manufacturers who have already been losing money for several quarters are now looking at another six months to a …
The Rest Of [...]

[Read more →]

Short on time and tight on money, a team of NASA engineers aims to solve the mystery of lunar ice in late winter-by crashing its low-budget kamikaze spacecraft into a crater.

The Rest Of The Story at Popular Mechanics Magazine …

a2a_linkname=”Inside [...]

[Read more →]