Network World on Intrustion Detection and Prevention
Former inmate arrested for breaking into prison's IT systems
It isn't uncommon for people to go to prison for breaking into corporate computers and stealing data. It's rare, though, for someone to be sent back to jail for breaking into a prison computer syst...
Report: 'Foreign entity' hacked Obama, McCain PCs
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 ...
IT worker let spammers into ex-employer's servers
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.
Security at the Point of Sale
When thieves stole the PIN pads at a cash register in one of his company's stores, Daniel Marcotte was amazed. Not that they'd done it--such thefts can happen once a week during the holiday season....
Tech tricks and treats of 2008
Growing up, you probably loved Halloween: Dressing up as your favorite superhero or princess, telling ghost stories, eating so much candy that your mom warned you your teeth were going to fall out....