Her team used a computer program she developed to identify the risk of broken hipbones in people with the bone disease osteoporosis.
VOA: special.2009.03.10
But the computer security company F-Secure points out the risk even in posting information like vacation plans.
VOA: special.2009.09.14
In stepped the investment bank industry with another solution: We'll take your mortgages, securitize them, slice them into categories based on default risk, use computer models to match default risk with yield and sell them to buyers around the world.
Toting around a computer filled with valuable data, however, is a growing risk: If the computer is lost or stolen, the user loses everything -- from a prized doctoral thesis to bank account numbers to records of passwords.