Spyware case finally closed for teacher Julie Amero
The case against Julie Amero is finally closed.
Robert McMillan | 24 Nov | Read more
The case against Julie Amero is finally closed.
Robert McMillan | 24 Nov | Read more
A systems administrator was arrested in New Jersey Monday for allegedly trying to extort money and even good job references out of a New York-based mutual fund company that had just laid him off.
Sharon Gaudin | 11 Nov | Read more
An e-mail touting the win of Democratic candidate Barack Obama directs users to a doctored election results page.
Joan Goodchild | 06 Nov | Read more
Computer systems used by the election campaigns of both President-elect Barack Obama and his Republican rival John McCain were broken into earlier this year, and a large number of files related to the evolving policy positions of the two candidates were stolen, according to a story posted online Wednesday by Newsweek magazine.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Nov | Read more
An IT manager who logged onto to his former employer's computer network five months after being fired and opened the e-mail server up to spammers has been sentenced to one year in prison.
Robert McMillan | 05 Nov | Read more
Proscriptive adoption of information security standards like ISO27001 is bound to fail, according to Joel Weise, principal engineer and chief technologist, Sun client services security program office, Sun Microsystems.
Jared Heng | 30 Oct | Read more
With a faltering economy resulting in increased jobs cuts and corporate belt tightening, security analysts are warning companies to be especially vigilant about protecting their data and networks against disgruntled employees.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 16 Oct | Read more
IBM, LexisNexis and the Secret Service are among a group of corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that has formed to study and help solve identity management challenges around cybercrime, terrorism and narcotics trafficking.
John Fontana | 09 Oct | Read more
A major VMware security initiative announced more than six months ago has still not resulted in any new products, but VMware and partners this week are demonstrating several prototypes of technology that will better secure virtual machines.
Jon Brodkin | 18 Sep | Read more
Best Western International Monday acknowledged it suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive customer information at a European hotel, but strongly disputes claims that an attacker gained access to 8 million customer records with credit-card numbers. Best Western insists no more than a dozen customer records were compromised.
Ellen Messmer | 27 Aug | Read more
The Cisco hacking scene has been pretty quiet for the past three years, but at this week's Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, there's going to be a little noise.
Robert McMillan | 06 Aug | Read more
The high-profile sabotage this month of the city of San Francisco's fiber backbone network clearly shows both the extent of damage a disgruntled employee can cause and the need for controls to mitigate the risk of such actions.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 29 Jul | Read more
It's been nearly three weeks since Terry Childs was arrested on four counts of computer tampering and sent to jail on US$5 million bail. In those three weeks, this event has taken turns to the strange, and wound up firmly in the land of the absurd. From bombastic claims in the press to midnight visits by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to pages of functional usernames and passwords entered into the public record, this case has certainly proven engaging.
Paul Venezia | 31 Jul | Read more
IT managers and analysts are expressing surprise at the amount of time it appears to be taking officials at the City of San Francisco to regain full control of the city's FiberWAN network after a disgruntled network administrator allegedly locked access to it by resetting administrative passwords to its switches and routers.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Jul | Read more
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom met with jailed IT administrator Terry Childs Monday, convincing him to hand over the administrative passwords to the city's multimillion dollar wide area network.
Robert McMillan and Paul Venezia | 24 Jul | Read more
The unfolding cliffhanger in San Francisco this week -- in which a city network administrator has been arrested for allegedly holding the network hostage -- represents an extreme example of the insider threat that IT security vendors and others have been sounding the alarm about for years.
Ellen Messmer | 17 Jul | Read more
A network administrator has allegedly locked up a multimillion-dollar computer system for the city of San Francisco that handles sensitive data, and he is refusing to give police the password
Robert McMillan | 16 Jul | Read more
The US Sony Playstation Web site is the latest high-profile victim of a hacker attack on business sites that's spreading malware at breakneck pace, says a security vendor.
Brian Jackson | 07 Jul | Read more
The spam and malware tsunami continues to cast a mounting shadow over the Internet this week.
Andrew Hendry | 25 Jun | Read more
More than 6,500 CNET Networks employees and relatives are being notified of a possible data breach after burglars stole computer systems from the offices of the company that administers the Internet publisher's benefit plans.
Robert McMillan | 24 Jun | Read more