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Hospitals offer new take on medical mistakes

All Donald Platt wanted was an apology. The tumor on his kidney was the size of a baseball by the time his cancer was detected in a CT scan - five years after his doctor misdiagnosed his symptoms and failed to order the right ...

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created Mar 08, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2




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WikiLeaks scandal sparks US intelligence reform

The WikiLeaks document dump, which saw hundreds of thousands of classified US files leaked, rattled US intelligence officials, forcing them to implement reforms to prevent another such breach.

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created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US cybersecurity efforts trigger privacy concerns

(AP) -- The federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties.

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created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

O2 accidentally exposes customers' phone numbers

An untold number of U.K. residents may have unwittingly broadcast their numbers to sites across the Web while browsing the Internet with their cellphones during the past two weeks.

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created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NZ police raid file-sharing site founder's mansion

New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars, and ...

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created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Feds shut down Megaupload.com file-sharing website (Update)

One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 49

The high price of data breaches

As consumers, we transmit valuable personal information to the companies with which we do business. In doing so, we trust that information will remain secure. Over the past year, however, we have learned of a number of instances ...

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created Nov 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Taiwan businesses call for industrial spying law

Taiwan businesses have called for a law on industrial espionage, especially by China, as growing ties have made it easier for mainland firms to steal secrets, officials and media said Thursday.

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created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cyber workshop at Sandia Labs seeks potential responses to cyberattacks

Among other dubious achievements, hackers have stolen identities, broken into bank accounts and breached computer systems of military contractors. They could conceivably interrupt water or electricity service to targeted ...

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created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers track number of doctors disciplined and why

A total of 606 Canadian physicians were disciplined by their provincial medical licensing authorities between 2000 and 2009, researchers at St. Michael's Hospital found.

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created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Buildings house secret servers that keep the Internet running

From the outside, the Gothic brick and limestone building a few blocks south of downtown almost looks abandoned.

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10


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