IT director pleads guilty to deleting organ donation records
The former IT director for a nonprofit organ and tissue donation center pleaded guilty to a charge that she broke into the organization's computer network and deleted organ donation database records, invoice files, and database and accounting software, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
CEO sentenced for trashing client's Web site
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.
Road signs hacked in NYC
Electronic road signs in downtown New York City were broken into over the weekend and instead of telling drivers to go slowly next to a Houston Street construction site, they flashed prankster messages such as "New York is dying," according to a report from The New York Post.
Six worst Internet routing attacks
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.
Web designers admit to trashing client's Web site
The CEO of Seattle-area consulting company Minecode faces prison time for destroying a customer's Web site.
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New Twitter features borrow from 3rd party clients
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Open Source Changes the Software Acquisition Process
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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CEO sentenced for trashing client's Web site
Six worst Internet routing attacks
Road signs hacked in NYC
IT director pleads guilty to deleting organ donation records
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Breach cripples Ohio Secretary of State's site
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Former inmate arrested for breaking into prison's IT systems
Software executive sentenced for hacking