Finance & Economics | WPN World People News

Many companies dump data in a data warehouse, says Accenture’s Jeanne Harris. The problem with that is: Now you don’t have a data warehouse; you have a data dump.

Sony failed to use firewalls to protect its networks and was using obsolete Web applications, which made the company’s sites inviting targets for hackers, a Purdue University professor testified May 4 to a Congressional committee investigating the massive data breach of the Sony game and entertainment networks.

To keep up with house payments, siblings Natalie and Chris Geymayr left college after their mother's death and the recession hit. Without degrees, they're struggling to find jobs that pay well.

At this stage of your career, you may have interviewed dozens -- or even hundreds -- of IT job applicants........

People gather in a support circle at Thistle Farms.

A young woman is arrested for prostitution on Dickerson Road in Nashville.

When RSA Security disclosed in February that a third party had breached its networks, the company claimed that it had been hit by an advanced persistent threat. Federal research facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory also blamed its recent breach on an APT.

Apple is facing some serious questions about how and why its mobile products collect users’ location data. But it’s not the first time the company has dealt with interrogation by lawmakers over its practices related to that sort of information.

Mobile etiquette is getting worse--although it's difficult to imagine this is possible. An Intel-sponsored survey by Ipsos found that 90 percent of respondents have witnessed poor mobile behavior firsthand, including texting while driving a vehicle and talking on a device while using a public restroom.