An unemployed North Londoner has been accused of committing the "biggest military computer hack of all time" by the U.S. government while authorities in Britain chose to release him without charge.
Gary McKinnon has a lot to worry about. His job prospects are bleak. He will shortly have to leave his home in North London and could be facing up to 70 years in a U.S. federal prison--a prospect that terrifies him.
A Phillies fan who flooded computers at The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News with thousands of e-mails complaining about the team was sentenced to four years in prison.
A federal court jury convicted Allan E. Carlson, 42, of Glendale, Calif., in January of identity theft, fraud, and computer hacking-related offenses for hijacking sportswriters' e-mail addresses.
Carlson, formerly of Vineland, N.J., and Merchantville, N.J., sent thousands of messages lambasting the Phillies management and listing sportswriters and team officials as the senders.
Greek police have arrested a 43 year-old man suspected of lifting the bank details of US citizens over the Internet and stealing over 60,000 dollars (49,600 euros) from their accounts in the past year.
A police raid on the suspect's apartment at the port of Piraeus on Wednesday yielded some 4,000 printed pages of personal bank details downloaded from the Internet, a police source told AFP on Thursday.
The man identified by Greek media as Dimitris Kadas had been briefly jailed for credit card fraud in Houston in 1987 before being deported to Greece.
Taiwan police captured a heavily armed fugitive whom they had been tracking for more than a year on Wednesday after he exposed his whereabouts by playing online computer games.
Taiwan evening newspapers said Chang Hsi-ming, wanted for murder, illegal possession of weapons and multiple kidnappings, was found via his Internet protocol address after police found out he often played games online.
Four people faced charges in Spain after police uncovered an Internet banking fraud believed to be conducted by computer experts in Eastern Europe.
However the four people who face charges in Valladolid, in northern Spain, were seen as merely pawns in the scam.
They had been recruited via Internet for "work at home" by "employers" protected by the anonymity of the Internet and living in countries "with a weak level of international police and judicial cooperation", Spanish police said.
Four Acxiom Corp. employees told jurors Tuesday about their discovery that the database-management company's computer system had been penetrated, and how they responded.
INTERNET WATCHDOG, the National Arbitration Forum, has told those who depend on people misspelling Google’s name to get hits on their sites, that they will have to cease and desist.
The Forum has awarded Google the rights to several Web site addresses that relied on typographical errors.
Sergey Gridasov of St. Petersburg, Russia was operating Web sites named googkle.com, ghoogle.com and gooigle.com.
The arbitrator, Paul Dorf, claimed that the use of misspelled addresses were part of a sinister plot to infect computers with "malware".
Convicted computer criminals are getting drastically different sentences, depending upon the jurisdiction in which they are tried, with one notorious hacker netting a very light suspended sentence, experts tell TechNewsWorld.
A judge in Germany today handed down a suspended sentence of a year and nine months to Sven Jaschan, the creator of the malicious Sasser virus that wreaked havoc on global Internet service in 2004. The 19-year-old was caught last year when Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) put up a US$250,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
Indictments were filed by an Israeli prosecutor Thursday against nine men in the industrial espionage case that involved planting Trojan horses on rival companies' computers to spy out their secrets.
The indictments against the nine private investigators working in Israel accuse them of industrial espionage, fraudulent receipt, uploading computer viruses, hacking computers with criminal intent, wiretapping, use of wiretaps, invasion of privacy, and managing an unauthorized database.
The teenager who created the "Sasser" computer worm that created havoc as it raced around the world last year was convicted today on charges including computer sabotage and given a suspended sentence, a court official said.
Sven Jaschan, 19, was found guilty of computer sabotage and illegally altering data, said Katharina Kruetzfeld, a spokeswoman for the court in the northwestern town of Verden. He was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months.
