Day: August 12, 2006

AQHRJ ONLINE PLANS REAL-TIME COVERAGE OF ALL AMERICAN FUTURITY

August 11, 2006 — On Saturday, entries will be taken for the prestigious running of the 47th All American Futurity (G1) at Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino.   This historical race, worth more than $2 million dollars, currently has 342 2-year-olds eligible to enter with talk of five probable supplemental nominations at $50,000 each.    “Approximately 50 percent of eligible horses actually enter the trials,” said Rick Baugh, Ruidoso Downs General Manager. “So we are looking to run 16-18 trials on Thursday, August 17.”  The only changes the public will experience in the running of this

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VA laptop breach victims to get free ID monitoring | CNET News.com

VA laptop breach victims to get free ID monitoring | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it has accepted an offer from an analytics company to monitor veterans’ personal data for free. Until a routine security audit is approved, the agency will hand over the data, which was breached as a result of a laptop theft, to ID Analytics. The California-based company, which specializes in identity risk management, will look for patterns of misuse. ID Analytics said it is offering its service to veterans for free

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AOL gaffe draws Capitol Hill rebuke – CNET News.com

AOL gaffe draws Capitol Hill rebuke | CNET News.com For more info click on above link AOL’s recent privacy gaffe that exposed user search histories may breathe new life into a proposal to slap strict rules on what data Internet companies may collect. Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said Wednesday that AOL’s disclosure of the search habits of more than 650,000 of its users demonstrates that new laws are necessary. AOL has apologized for the disclosure. “We must stop companies from unnecessarily storing the building blocks of American citizens’ private lives,” Markey said.

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BetOnSports to close its U.S. business | CNET News.com

BetOnSports to close its U.S. business | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Internet gaming group BetOnSports, which removed its chief executive from his job following his detention in Texas last month on racketeering charges, said on Friday it was closing down its U.S. business, which drives the vast majority of the company’s profits. The company said it would cease operations in Costa Rica and Antigua, where its U.S. operations are based, because they were no longer viable amid a restraining order on the business and the charges faced by former Chief Executive David

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Microsoft security–no more second chances? – CNET News.com

Microsoft security–no more second chances? | Perspectives | CNET News.com For more info clcik on above link As if Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff didn’t have enough on his plate. Not only has he had to deal with Katrina and Osama. Now he’s also got to whip Steve Ballmer and the crew at Microsoft into shape. If past is prologue, that last task may be the most daunting of all. In a remarkable declaration earlier this week, the Department of Homeland Security–a bureaucracy set up to deal with stuff that generally falls under the category of national

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Stolen DOT laptop puts thousands of identities at risk | CNET News.com

Stolen DOT laptop puts thousands of identities at risk | CNET News.com For more info click on above link A U.S. Department of Transportation laptop with personal information on 133,000 Florida residents has been stolen, exposing the data to identity fraud. The computer was taken from a government-owned vehicle on July 27 in the Miami area, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. The password-protected laptop was assigned to a special agent in the Miami arm of the department’s Office of Inspector General, it said. While the laptop did not contain financial or medical information, four databases

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