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 ...

I'm trying to figure out the differences between a network administrator and a systems administrator.<BR>Using Salary.com, the descriptions are very similar: <BR><BR ...

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 ...

Network monitors are an absolute must-have for any network administrator. But which tool, out of the thousands, should you consider for your tool kit? Jack Wallen offers up his five favorites. Image: ...

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 ...