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Should AI be in charge of sentencing Australia's criminals?
Swinburne researchers put forward their case.
Jan 30 2018 11:10AM
US hacker sentenced to 21 months in prison for $17m scheme
Targeted global banks over two years.
Oct 26 2014 9:42PM
Anonymous hacker Sabu walks free after aiding FBI
Judge praises 'extraordinary' co-operation.
May 28 2014 9:36AM
Suspended sentence for Adelaide hacker
Urged to take a job in IT security.
Jan 14 2011 11:02AM
Chinese antivirus war ends in death sentence
Vendor makes virus, rival blamed.
Dec 14 2010 10:30AM
Wikileaks: Brown requested UK sentence for McKinnon
Leaked cables reveal correspondence.
Dec 2 2010 2:21PM
Prison sentence for RBS hacker suspended in Russia
Hackers unlikely to face punishment in the US.
Sep 10 2010 1:15PM
Spam magnate sentenced to over four years jail
Breached spam and fraud laws.
Nov 25 2009 10:44AM
Software pirate gets 30-month sentence
A 40-year-old American was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
Sep 10 2007 4:34AM
'Spam king' given 30-year jail sentence
Christopher Smith, the notorious "pharmacy spam king," has received a 30-year-jail sentence for running an illegal internet store that sold millions of dollars in prescription drugs.
Aug 7 2007 10:20AM
Two-year sentence for UK data theft
Government gets tough, but security experts remain unconvinced.
Feb 9 2007 1:36PM
Former CA chief receives 12-year jail sentence
Sanjay Kumar pleaded guilty in accounting scandal.
Nov 3 2006 9:49AM
Tougher sentence demanded for TKBot-A Trojan authors
The vast majority of business PC users believe that UK legal authorities were too soft on the members of the Thr34t-Krew cyber crime gang who were sentenced last week for causing unauthorised modification of computers with intent.
Oct 17 2005 10:12AM
Japanese phisher gets suspended sentence
A Japanese man received a 22-month prison sentence after he created a fake website of Yahoo Japan in order to steal personal information from users of that portal. The sentence was suspended for four years.
Sep 15 2005 4:09PM
Poll: Sentence too light for Blaster variant creator
Fifty-three percent of business PC users who responded to a web poll said the 18-month prison sentence a man received for unleashing a variant of the Blaster worm was too light.
Feb 2 2005 10:55PM
Fraudster faces prison sentence
Jan 14 2005 5:01PM
