A former Los Alamos National Laboratory computer specialist was sentenced to eight months in prison Monday for hacking into and damaging the computers of several high-tech companies, including online auction giant eBay Inc. Jerome T. Heckenkamp, 25, of Santa Monica, pleaded guilty to two counts in January 2004 to the attacks, which took place before he joined the laboratory.
The Hungarian man sentenced to three years in prison for industrial espionage after hacking Ericsson and Sony Ericsson intranets on Tuesday appealed that sentence. Csaba Richter, 26, hacked into computer systems from his home in a small town north of Budapest from March 2002 until June last year. He has admitted to stealing documents containing information about Ericsson's and Sony Ericsson's telecommunications, but said he did not think the information he accessed and downloaded was classified. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture between Japan's Sony Corp.
Google has sued Froogles.com, charging the rival shopping search engine with trademark infringement.
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google, the No. 1 search engine, filed a 68-page complaint against Froogles.com in the Eastern District Court of New York. The complaint alleges that Froogles.com proprietor Richard Wolfe, a New York state resident, illegally traded on Google's famous name and search brand for profit with a "nearly identical" mark.
In a judicial first for the Philippines, an appellate court clerk has been sacked by the Supreme Court for sending an extortion note by mobile phone, court officials said on Friday.
Court of appeals clerk Elvira Apao was convicted on charges of grave misconduct for extorting a million pesos ($US18,315) from a litigant in a case being heard by the appelate court, Supreme Court officials said.
Apao will not serve jail time, but the highest court of the land forfeited her pension and she was barred for life from the civil service.
Jeremy Jaynes--also known by his alias, "Gaven Stubberfield"--is believed to have raked in between $500,000 and $750,000 a month through sales of products from the spam e-mails and was rated as the eighth most prolific spammer in the world by spam watchdog Spamhaus.
The circuit judge in Loudon County, Virginia upheld the nine year sentence recommended by the court when Jaynes was initially convicted last November under a recent Virginia anti-spam law, which limits the quantity of bulk e-mail that can be sent and prohibits the use of fake e-mail addresses.
A man convicted in the first U.S. felony prosecution for sending bulk e-mail _ known as spamming _ was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday, but the judge postponed the sentence while the case is appealed.
Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne said that because the law targeting bulk e-mail distribution is new and raises constitutional questions, it was appropriate to defer the prison time until appeals courts rule.
A former employee of Microsoft Corp. was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $5 million in restitution for selling the world's largest software maker's products for personal gain, federal prosecutors said.
Richard Gregg, 45, agreed to a plea agreement in U.S. District Court in Seattle, where he admitted to ordering more than $13 million worth of software meant for internal use and selling it to pay off a mortgage and buy luxury cars.
The ex dot-com millionaire that lost the rights to the iTunes.co.uk domain name has announced he plans to take his legal battle to the High Court.
Sony Corp.'s game unit said on Monday it was ordered by a U.S. court to pay about $90 million in damages and to halt game machine sales in the United States in a patent infringement case against Immersion Corp.
Sony Computer Entertainment (SEC) said it disagreed with the decision by a federal district court in California and would appeal to a higher court.
Texas sued the nation's largest Internet-based phone service provider Tuesday, saying Edison-based Vonage failed to clearly inform customers they cannot automatically dial 911 when they sign up.
The lawsuit follows a case last month in which a 17-year-old Houston girl was unable to call 911 on her family's Vonage service during an armed robbery in which her parents were shot and wounded. The girl ran to a neighbor's house and called for help.
