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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
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
Orange CEO quits after three years
Moving into emerging markets but still retaining France Telecom links.
Matt Chapman
Apr 30 2007 10:57AM
Training & Development
Microsoft to axe Windows XP by year's end
Computer makers will be forced to switch to Windows Vista systems by the end of this year.
Tom Sanders
Apr 16 2007 10:18AM
Software
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
Gartner: ID theft up 50 per cent in three years
Organised cybercrime rings have spearheaded a sharp increase in identity theft, which has skyrocketed nearly 50 per cent in three years, according to a new Gartner survey.
Dan Kaplan
Mar 9 2007 5:03AM
Security
US hacker sentenced to one year's imprisonment
A US citizen who pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit computer fraud and identity theft has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment by a Florida court.
Fiona Raisbeck
Mar 9 2007 2:53AM
Security
Gartner: ID theft up 50 percent in three years
Organised cybercrime rings have spearheaded a sharp increase in identity theft, which has skyrocketed nearly 50 percent in three years, according to a just-released Gartner survey.
Dan Kaplan
Mar 7 2007 10:32PM
Security
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
Late-emerging New Year's scam was December's top virus
A worm posing as a New Year's greeting has been ranked as last month's most widespread virus, despite not appearing until 30 December.
Frank Washkuch
Jan 4 2007 4:54PM
Security
New Year's, Christmas malware targeting inboxes
Email users are again getting the electronic age's version of coal in a stocking - holiday-season spam and malware.
Frank Washkuch
Dec 27 2006 5:03PM
Security
New Year's resolution? Publish a month of Mac bugs
Mac OS X will be the focus of the next month-of-bugs project, scheduled to kick off 1 January, a leading security blog reported today.
Dan Kaplan
Dec 20 2006 9:07AM
Security
Former UBS system administrator gets eight years for logic bomb
A former systems administrator for UBS PaineWebber was sentenced to over eight years in jail and fined US$3.1 million last week after he was found guilty for leaving a logic bomb on UBS' systems and trading securities on the assumption that the company's stock would fall.
Ericka Chickowski
Dec 19 2006 9:03AM
Security
WiMAX may challenge Asia 3G 'in five years'
Wi-Fi 'not a successful business model' for wide area broadband.
Simon Burns
Nov 30 2006 12:51PM
Telco/ISP
Mobile porn set to explode over next five years
Market predicted to double to US$3.3bn by 2011.
Will Head
Nov 28 2006 10:00AM
Telco/ISP
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
Paedophile hacker jailed for 10 years
A paedophile who used internet chat rooms to hack into the computers of schoolgirls and blackmail them into sending explicit pictures of themselves was jailed for ten years yesterday.
Fiona Raisbeck
Nov 10 2006 2:45PM
Security
Dozen years in the slammer for former CA chief exec
The former chief executive of anti-virus software vendor CA was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison this week for his role in an accounting scandal at the company.
Frank Washkuch
Nov 3 2006 7:17PM
Security
Florida hacker faces two years in jail, $400,000 fine
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that it charged a Florida man today in federal court for establishing a botnet from which he launched a denial of service attack on a Massachusetts technology firm.
Ericka Chickowski
Oct 25 2006 12:46AM
Security
UK broadband lines to double in three years
Point Topic predicts fast growth, especially in rural areas.
Robert Jaques
Oct 10 2006 9:53AM
Telco/ISP
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