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An IT manager who logged onto to his former employer's computer network five months after being fired and opened the e-mail server up to spammers has been sentenced to one year in prison.

Retailers often find themselves facing sophisticated networks of thieves intent on spoofing point-of-sale systems.

A 25-year-old New York man has been charged with providing co-conspirators with a 'sniffer' program for capturing payment card data as it traveled across corporate networks.

About 35,000 students, faculty and staff at George Mason University received a hoax e-mail that appeared to be from the provost's office saying the presidential election had been postponed to Nov. 5.