Computer Equipment

Computer equipment containing the private financial data of every employee of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was stolen earlier this week, prompting the utility to pay for a credit monitoring service for each of its 8,275 workers. DWP General Manager H.

A cascading computer failure in the nation's air traffic control system caused severe flight delays and some cancellations Friday along the Eastern Seaboard. A computer system in Atlanta that processes pilots' flight plans and sends them to air traffic controllers failed late Thursday or early Friday, said Diane Spitaliere, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

That laser printer sitting on your desk could be emitting high levels of potentially hazardous particles, according to a study published today. Some printers released almost as many ultra-fine particles as a smoldering cigarette, the study authors said.

Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse potentially millions of customers and pay as much as $1.79 million in plaintiffs' attorney fees to settle a lawsuit accusing the world's largest maker of hard drives of overstating the data storage capacity of those devices, court records show. The Scotts Valley, Calif.-based company will refund 5% of the purchase price to people who bought Seagate hard drives in the United States from March 22, 2001, to Dec.

Remember the "paperless office?" Futurists used to predict that computers would eventually be the end of paper documents. That forecast turned out to be as accurate as the one that put a personal helicopter in every garage. The truth is that the ease of writing and revising on a computer, as well as the ability to make multiple printouts, has led to more paper in our lives than ever.

No more than 200 yards from the main gate of the sprawling U.S. base here, stolen computer drives containing classified military assessments of enemy targets, names of corrupt Afghan officials and descriptions of American defenses are on sale in the local bazaar.

Black marketeers can feel the heat a long way off. So by the time U.S. soldiers came looking Tuesday, the shopkeeper had his military computer drives tucked away in a zip-lock bag on a hidden shelf. The U.S. military said Tuesday that it was looking into reports that computer drives containing military data, some marked "secret," were available for as little as $20 in a bazaar outside its biggest base, and soldiers were visible making rounds there.

A computer drive sold openly Wednesday at a bazaar outside the U.S. air base here holds what appears to be a trove of potentially sensitive American intelligence data, including the names, photographs and telephone numbers of Afghan spies informing on the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

Maps, charts and intelligence reports on computer drives smuggled out of a U.S. base and sold at a bazaar here appear to detail how Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders have been using southwestern Pakistan as a key planning and training base for attacks in Afghanistan. The documents, marked "secret," appear to be raw intelligence reports based on conversations with Afghan informants and official briefings given to high-level U.S. military officers. Together, they outline how the U.S.

The Army's chief of staff said Wednesday that he was frustrated by security lapses at Bagram air base in Afghanistan that led to the loss of potentially sensitive data, and that the military must learn how to be more careful with new technology. Weeks after revelations that flash drives carrying sensitive and classified information have turned up for sale in a bazaar outside Bagram, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said the Army was trying to improve how soldiers used and secured flash drives.