Stories about: Booz

Officials at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton are looking into how a Fox News reporter acquired a confidential terrorist threat assessment on Chicago over a public file-sharing network.

Computers belonging to the U.S. government, contractors and companies in the transportation industry were hit by a targeted computer attack in July that yielded password information for hundreds of Internet and intranet Web sites, a computer security vendor said Tuesday.

Call it the second Internet bubble, a Web 2.0 revolution or just a resurgence in really useful tools for busy end users -- Web applications are catching on quickly.

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards on Tuesday agreed to form a committee to investigate crafting a Web services standard for process workflow. The standard would be based on a specification originally written by IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and BEA Systems Inc.

Board members of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, an influential Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder, voted Friday to oppose the proposed merger between HP and Compaq Computer Corp., a move that could potentially sink the US$25 billion deal, according to some analysts.