Robert McMillan

At least seven class action lawsuits have been filed since Google admitted to sniffing on open wireless networks

Two years after a complaint from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Innovative Marketing officials are now facing criminal charges. Prosecutors allege they pushed out ads designed to look like anti-virus scans or OS errors

A fake e-mail with the Trojan lifts text from a Microsoft Web site about the real software

Though Juror No.4 had sympathy for Terry Childs, holding San Francisco's network hostage was breaking the law. Jason Chilton explains why he voted to convict.

Terry Childs was found guilty of denying computer services and faces up to five years in prison. A former administrator for the City of San Francisco, he refused to hand over passwords to city officials two years ago.

The former network administrator for the City of San Francisco refused to disclose administrative passwords to city officials in July, 2008. He was charged with violating hacking laws but his lawyer argued he did not believe all staff members were authorized to have the passwords.

Hackers were able to access data at the open source Apache Software Foundation by using a cross-site scripting bug and brute force password guessing. They were able to break into JIRA software from Atlassian Pty. Ltd.

Verizon will be the exclusive U.S. carrier; Vodafone will sell the phones in Europe, but no word yet on a Canadian carrier or launch. Find out more about the new Microsoft smart phone