A bank-card scammer using stolen Citibank account numbers and PINs netted hundreds of thousands of dollars, but was caught because he always wore the same distinctive sweatshirt when making the illegal withdrawals.

The Department of Defense is paying Lockheed Martin $89 million to converge the Defense Logistics Agency's and U.S. Transportation Command's distribution networks to help the military better order and track supply shipments.

Normally, in a time of crisis, an "amateur" is not the first person you might call. But when communications networks go down, amateur radio operators - or hams - and their gear can get communities connected to the outside world via the radio waves.

The legal battle between Trend Micro and Barracuda enters a new stage, as Barracuda brings in three newly-purchased patents of its own.

Cloud computing is fraught with security risks, according to analyst firm Gartner. Smart customers will ask tough questions, and consider getting a security assessment from a neutral third party before committing to a cloud vendor, Gartner says in a June report titled “Assessing the Security Risks of Cloud Computing.”

A group of five vendors has formed an alliance to help push Macintosh desktops into managed Windows environments on corporate networks.

The best enterprise search products on the market come from Autonomy, Endeca, the Microsoft subsidiary Fast and Vivisimo, but Google’s Search Appliance continues to dominate the market in terms of brand awareness and sheer number of customers, Forrester Research says in a new report.

Microsoft is seeking partners including Time Warner and News Corp. in a new bid to acquire Yahoo's search business, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.

It's official: Mozilla has set possibly the geekiest world record ever with the release of Firefox 3.

IBM has acquired Platform Solutions, a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, in a move that raised antitrust concerns from one IT trade group.

Back when you learned to drive, you may have been instructed to keep your hands on the wheel at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. Of course, the older you got, the more likely that rule was relegated to the realm of "suggestion," especially as the equipment in our cars--stereos, onboard navigation, even climate control--got more and more complicated. And of course, there's the all too common sight today of someone speeding past you while chatting merrily away on his or her cell phone.

Writers of a password-stealing Trojan horse program have found that a little patience can lead to a lot of infections.

Patent trolls beware: some of the tech industry's biggest names are banding together to run you out of court.

Microsoft's SharePoint Server 2007 may be taking off in the enterprise, but the software doesn't come without holes, warts and a variety of other issues that need to be addressed in any corporate deployment.

The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail spam that came to them, chronicling the results. Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in Naperville, Ill., was among them, and she tells what she saw in her online identity as "Penelope Retch".

Larry Ellison-backed Pillar Data Systems upgrades storage system for VMware, Oracle and Exchange environments.

Sun is an old hand when it comes to telework. The technology company has been expanding its telecommuting ranks through its Open Work program for a decade, and today nearly 19,000 employees (56% of Sun's population) work from home or in a flexible office.

Five major network hardware, software and services vendors are banding together to improve IT security by promoting faster responses to threats.

Data-leak prevention gains another market entry with the debut of start-up nexTier Networks, which is touting a DLP appliance that monitors and blocks sensitive and unauthorized transmissions and learns by crawling the enterprise network to read for information content where data is stored.