Interior Dept. reports computer abuse
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Interior Department employees aren't just using their computers to oversee parks and wildlife, an investigation found. They're spending thousands of hours a week visiting shopping, sex and gambling Web sites.
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The Department of Defense took an estimated 1,500 computers offline after a security breach in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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Government official calls for tools to help investigators sift through increasing amounts of data seized by law enforcement.
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One day, we hear that the city government wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars on un-used hotel rooms. Another day, the ongoing computer leasing inquiry reveals more details of violated procedures and lack of accountability.
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By Michael Sluss mike.sluss@roanoke.com (804) 697-1585  Two hardware failures in the state's central computer system forced Department of Motor Vehicles offices to close early Wednesday and created problems for other government agencies.
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FBI says the agency violated rules more than 1000 times while collecting personal data since 2002--many more abuses suspected.
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Second Life, the fast-growing online  site where hundreds of thousands of people play out fantasy  lives online, has suffered a computer security breach that  exposed the real-world personal data of its users.
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This organization's IT security officer leaves and isn't replaced. A year and a half later, the organization suffers a Web page defacement and malware attack -- and no one is really surprised.
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A few weeks ago Candace Locklear&#39;s  office computer quietly started sending out dozens of instant  messages with photos attached that were infected with malicious  software.
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An FBI computer system that quickly screens gun buyers' backgrounds for criminal activity crashed several times over the past two days, officials said Monday.
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Computer misuse at government offices is an ongoing problem, and experts say managers should take specific actions to keep federal employees from using their desktop computers for personal business.
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Microsoft calls in police over employee "abuse" of discount program.
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The U.S. Interior Department can keep its computers connected to the Internet despite the fact that hackers could manipulate royalty payments owed to American Indians for use of their land, an appeals court ruled Friday.
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By JORDAN ROBERTSON  SAN JOSE, Calif. - Your work computer just suffered a major meltdown. Maybe the operating system failed, or a virus crashed the hard drive.
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How spyware, a program that creeps onto a computerÂs hard drive unannounced, is wrecking the Internet.
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By Kelly Proctor, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 12--Computer users take note: Here comes another cyber glitch  threatening to confound your PC.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited...