(Washington Post) — Rocky Cintron remembers his first day as a salesman like it was yesterday.  It was the early 1980s. His desk was a card table in a hallway at Computer Data Products in Rockville. He had never sold anything in his life. No training. He read computer magazines to learn about the products. […]

(Financial Times) — The Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK privacy watchdog, has this month been given greater powers to levy up to £500,000 in fines for serious breaches of the data protection act. Its increased powers underline the growing pressure that financial services companies and government departments are under to safeguard the huge amounts of […]

(AP) – A video has surfaced showing accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab training with al-Qaida in Yemen. The video, obtained and broadcast Monday by “ABC World News,” shows the 23-year-old Nigerian firing weapons and speaking in Arabic about his impending attack. He is shown reading from the Quran and saying, “God said those […]

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