Data and programs are stored in main memory, as random access memory (RAM), before and after processing by the central processing unit (CPU). However, RAM is volatile —its contents disappear when a computer's power is turned off. So what...

A data storage device is a device for recording (storing) information (data). Recording can be done using virtually any form of energy, spanning from manual muscle power in handwriting, to acoustic vibrations in phonographic recording, to...

A data storage device with the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state intern's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday."I don't mean to alarm people unnecessarily," Strickland said. "There's no reason to...

Officials with the contractor that runs Los Alamos National Laboratory sent top-secret data regarding nuclear weapons through open e-mail networks, the latest potentially dangerous security breach to come to light at the birthplace of the atomic bomb, two congressmen said.The breach was investigated by the...

A data storage device with the Social Security numbers and other personal information on all 64,000 Ohio state employees was stolen from a state intern's car last weekend, Gov. Ted Strickland said Friday.Late Friday, the governor's office said the storage device also may have held...

A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring.The names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 Ohio state employees were stolen last weekend from a state agency intern who...