intrusion

Is this year turning out to be even worse for getting hacked than last year? That's what a survey of 350 IT and network professionals would indicate, with large companies in particular reporting this to be worse than last in terms of suffering at least one network intrusion of their user machines, office network or servers.

The CEO of a Seattle-area consulting company was sentenced to three months of home confinement Thursday for destroying a client's Web site following a contract dispute.

Here's our list of the biggest security incidents involving the Internet's core routing protocol, the Border Gateway Protocol. Some of these incidents were attacks; others were accidental misconfigurations. But all of them disrupted traffic to Web sites or entire networks because of incorrect routing messages being propagated across the Internet through BGP.

The president of a U.S. software company has been sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to stealing password-protected files from a competitor.

Computer systems used by the election campaigns of both Barack Obama and 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.

Private information stored in Apple's iPhone and protected by a lock code can be accessed by anyone with just a few button presses.