Stories by: Robert McMillan

The head of VMware's security group has left to join San Francisco's OpenDNS, a startup that provides Internet infrastructure services.

A Boston-area teenager has pleaded guilty to charges of hacking and placing fake emergency phone calls in hopes of summoning police tactical response teams to the homes of his victims.

How much is spam costing your company? Google unveiled a nifty little calculator Wednesday to help you add it up.

Two years after trying to build a consumer antivirus business, Microsoft has decide to throw in the towel.

Symantec CEO John Thompson is retiring.

Frank Boldewin had seen a lot of malicious software in his time, but never anything like Rustock.C.

Some security patches take time.

Microsoft released two security updates for its Windows operating system Tuesday to patch flaws that could give attackers new ways to install malicious software on a victim's computer.

A former San Jose, California, network administrator is facing 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking, ID theft, burglary and drug charges.

Computer systems that run the world's critical infrastructure are not as secure as they should be and insiders are mad.

Fifteen-year-old Peter Schmidt-Nielsen spent only a month working on his submission, but he thinks he's come up with something "unusual and new." Never mind that he's up against some of the most famous cryptographers in the world.