THE head of an internet security company that claimed to have found dangerous loopholes in US military computers has been indicted on charges of hacking government networks for financial gain.
Brett Edward O'Keefe, 36, was arrested and indicted Monday on six counts of conspiracy to access military, government and private computers, said US Attorney Carol Lam. O'Keefe was scheduled to be arraigned yesterday in federal court.
l33tdawg: Just a note from Zanta (who submitted this story): "Cable modem uncappers in Toledo, Ohio have gone through the court system, but there is a typo in The Blade article, the name for the one Sylvania man who got dismissed is not Richard Tetreau.
Thanks!" -- Right mate, thanks for that, but uhmz, why does this concern you? *grin*
A judge yesterday dismissed a cyber-crime charge against a Sylvania man who had been accused of altering his cable computer modem to improve Internet service.
In a hotly contested lawsuit before a federal appeals court, two peer-to-peer companies are about to gain a vast army of allies: America's librarians.
The five major U.S. library associations are planning to file a legal brief Friday siding with Streamcast Networks and Grokster in the California suit, brought by the major record labels and Hollywood studios. The development could complicate the Recording Industry Association of America's efforts to portray file-swapping services as rife with spam and illegal pornography.
Makers of the most popular online file-sharing network are suing entertainment companies for copyright infringement, alleging the companies used unauthorized versions of its software to snoop on users in their efforts to battle piracy.
A US jury this week convicted a Florida man for selling illegal cable TV descrambling hardware. This is the first jury conviction under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Thomas Michael Whitehead, 38, of Boca Raton, Florida, was found guilty of three counts of violating the DMCA. His role in selling hardware used to pirate DirecTV broadcasts also earned a conviction on two counts of selling unlawful decryption device and one count of conspiracy.
The Minnesota teenager accused of unleashing a variant of the Blaster worm pleaded not guilty yesterday to a federal charge that carries a maximum sentence of 10 years imprisonment.
Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minnesota, said little during his first appearance in a Seattle courtroom yesterday other than to confirm his age and identity, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. His lawyers entered a not-guilty plea to a charge of "intentionally causing damage to a protected computer" on his behalf.
A high school senior pleaded innocent Wednesday to a federal charge alleging he crippled more than 7,000 computers by modifying a version of the "Blaster" worm. Jeffrey Parson, 18, of Hopkins, Minn., was arrested Aug. 29 and faces one count of intentionally causing damage to a protected computer. The maximum sentence is 10 years in prison. Parson said little in court, other than to acknowledge his identity and tell the judge "Good afternoon." Trial was tentatively set for Nov. 17 in Seattle. Parson has been placed under home detention, but is allowed to attend school.
Adrian Lamo, accused of attacking the networks of The New York Times, Yahoo and other companies, will have to live with his parents but can use a PC for some purposes. A federal judge on Friday said Adrian Lamo, the so-called homeless hacker, could go free on bail with only limited restrictions on his computer use until his next court date in October.
John McKay, United States Attorney for the Western District of Washington, and R. Scott Crabtree, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that Matthew Thomas Guevara, age 21, of Chicago, Illinois, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. According to the plea agreement, beginning in late 2000 and continuing until August 2001, Guevara operated a scheme to defraud customers of the Microsoft Network (MSN).
A 22-year-old who admits to hacking into corporate computer networks was released on $250,000 bond in California on Tuesday and ordered to travel to New York to face charges related to breaking into the internal network of The New York Times newspaper.
A federal magistrate in Sacramento released Adrian Lamo to the care of his parents, who used their house as collateral for the bond, and prohibited him from accessing any computers, said Patty Pontello, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Sacramento.
