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"Iceman" hacker pleads guilty, faces 60 years

"Iceman" hacker pleads guilty, faces 60 years

A hacker who went by the alias "Iceman" pleaded guilty in a US federal court to charges of wire fraud and now faces up to 60 years in prison.
Angela Moscaritolo Jul 1 2009 11:06AM Security
NSW prisons to trial mobile phone jamming

NSW prisons to trial mobile phone jamming

The NSW Department of Corrective Services is seeking an exemption from ACMA regulations to conduct a trial of mobile phone signal jamming technology inside NSW prisons.
Stuart Finlayson Jun 1 2009 2:42PM Security
NSW spends $1.5m to link prison biometric security systems

NSW spends $1.5m to link prison biometric security systems

The New South Wales Department of Corrective Services is looking to integrate the fingerprint and iris detection systems used across several of its 34 prisons.
Brett Winterford May 28 2009 7:43PM Security
Student pleads not guilty to Sarah Palin email exposure

Student pleads not guilty to Sarah Palin email exposure

A 21 year old student faces twenty years in prison for accessing Sarah Palin’s email account and publishing what he found.
Iain Thomson Mar 11 2009 1:20PM Security
TJX hacker gets 30-year prison sentence

TJX hacker gets 30-year prison sentence

A Ukrainian man, one of the orchestrator's of the monster TJX breach, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in Turkey.
Angela Moscaritolo Jan 9 2009 10:48AM Security
Palin email intruder indicted, faces up to five years in prison

Palin email intruder indicted, faces up to five years in prison

A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted on charges he accessed GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account without permission.
Dan Kaplan Oct 9 2008 9:44AM Security
Convicted spammer escapes from prison

Convicted spammer escapes from prison

Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson has escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence..
Iain Thomson Jul 23 2008 4:48PM Security
Convicted spammer escapes from prison

Convicted spammer escapes from prison

Convicted spammer Edward "Eddie" Davidson has escaped from a federal prison camp after serving just five weeks of a 21 month sentence.
Iain Thomson Jul 23 2008 1:24PM Security
Systems administrator gets 30 months in prison for 'logic bomb'

Systems administrator gets 30 months in prison for 'logic bomb'

A New Jersey man this week was sentenced to more than two years in prison for planting a “logic bomb” on the network of his former employer in a failed attempt to destroy sensitive health care data.
Frank Washkuch Jan 10 2008 2:26PM Security
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison

Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison

A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than a century in prison after he seeded teens' computers with trojans and then demanded the victims provide him with nude photographs of themselves.
Dan Kaplan Dec 4 2007 10:44AM Security
Los Angeles botmaster faces 60 years in prison, US$1.75 million fine

Los Angeles botmaster faces 60 years in prison, US$1.75 million fine

A California man is facing a maximum of 60 years in prison and a US$1.75 million fine after agreeing to plead guilty to using botnets to steal PC users' personal and financial information.
Frank Washkush Jr Nov 13 2007 9:59AM Security
Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison

Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison

The Southern California man who was the first person convicted under the US CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 for operating a sophisticated "phishing scheme" has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison.
Jim Carr Jun 18 2007 10:25AM Security
Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison

Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison

A New York man pleaded guilty this week to violating the CAN-SPAM Act by sending junk email to about 1.2 million AOL subscribers in a 2005 run.
Frank Washkuch Jun 14 2007 11:16AM Security
Man faces prison for 24 piracy

Man faces prison for 24 piracy

USA - Four hours of video could net three years in prison.
Iain Thomson Jun 6 2007 4:05PM Software
Child porn surfers will go to prison

Child porn surfers will go to prison

Top cop vows to jail deliberate paedophile site users.
Iain Thomson Jun 4 2007 10:17AM Security
Prison keys sold on eBay

Prison keys sold on eBay

Quick lock change in order after security slip.
Iain Thomson May 4 2007 2:20PM Security
Pentagon hacker could face 60 years in prison after extradition to US

Pentagon hacker could face 60 years in prison after extradition to US

Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into Pentagon and NASA networks, has lost his fight against extradition to the United States in front of the British High Court.
Fiona Raisbeck Apr 4 2007 10:29AM Security
US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn

US Judge sentenced to prison for child porn

A former judge was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison on Tuesday for possession of child pornography that was initially found by a Canadian hacker vigilante who tipped off authorities six years ago.
Ericka Chickowski Feb 22 2007 10:32PM Security
Singapore man faces 180 years in prison

Singapore man faces 180 years in prison

A Singaporean hacker has been charged with posting a fake July 2005 bomb threat on a technology website and 60 counts of illegally accessing a wireless network.
Frank Washkuch Jan 9 2007 5:57PM Security
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison

Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison

Denial-of-service attackers in the UK now face up to ten years in prison under the new Police and Justice Act 2006, which came into force last week.
Fiona Raisbeck Nov 13 2006 11:50AM Security

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