Last Sunday, Terry Childs, a network administrator employed by the City of San Francisco, was arrested and taken into custody, charged with four counts of computer tampering. He remains in jail, held ...

The City of San Francisco’s IT department is certainly not the exception when it comes to allowing just one person to have unfettered rights to make password and configuration changes to networks and ...

A City of San Francisco administrator who refused to hand over administrative passwords to the city’s network was sentenced to four years in state prison Friday. Terry Childs was convicted in April of ...

This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld’s print edition. A network administrator late last week pleaded innocent to charges that he locked up a key city of San Francisco ...

Humanity took another step towards its Ghost in the Shell future on Tuesday with Microsoft's unveiling of the new Security Copilot AI at its inaugural Microsoft Secure event. The automated ...

Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. As jury members ...

A network administrator has locked up a multimillion dollar computer system for San Francisco that handles sensitive data and is refusing to give police the password, the San Francisco Chronicle ...