Terry Petrill, the former CISO of Horry County, South Carolina, pleaded guilty to stealing expensive network equipment from his employer and selling it on the internet.

A city sanitation worker embezzled as much as $455 by shredding tickets that had to be handwritten when a ransomware attack disabled electronic payments.

The department has revealed "Patternizr," a tool used the past two year years to spot crime patterns nearly invisible to the human eye.

A second indictment against the suspected SamSam hackers says the virus infected nearly 3,800 computers owned by the city.

The Justice Department charged two Iranian citizens with developing and deploying the SamSam ransomware virus that extracted more than $6 million from its victims and cost millions more in damage.

Randall Charles Tucker will serve 20 months behind bars for a 2015 distributed denial-of-service attack that crippled the city's websites for six days.

State corrections officials say a new program that watches prisoners from 400 feet above is the first of its kind in the nation.

The FBI's annual report shows where hackers are hitting the U.S. hardest, and that ransomware only accounts for a fraction of the damage.

James Hickey directed campaign contributions to former Allentown, Pennsylvania Mayor Ed Pawlowski in exchange for a million contract to upgrade the city's street lights.