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A 24-year-old, who admitted to phishing AOL users during a four-year period, has received seven years in prison. A man described by Microsoft as one of the top ten spammers in the world has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail. The man responsible for unleashing what is believed to be the first self-propagating cross-site scripting worm has pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court to charges stemming from his most infamous hacking. The University of California system has agreed to pay the US Department of Energy (DOE) a US$2.8 million fine as a result of a security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory last year. MySpace.com has cleaned up multiple attacks on some its most popular music pages, including that of Alicia Keys.
A 23-year-old man accused of sending spam and phishing emails that targeted AOL subscribers pleaded guilty on Wednesday in a US court, the country's Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. The theft of classified information by a contractor's former employee has forced the Los Alamos National Laboratory to implement a variety of tactical and strategic security policies commonly found in a private enterprise. Two hackers are planning to fill April's calendar with a month's worth of MySpace vulnerabilities - if the project isn't an April Fools' Day prank. Perl guru Randal Schwartz has had his conviction for hacking Intel's password files quashed, 12 years after being found guilty. Self-confessed software pirate Maksym Vysochanskyy, a Ukrainian national, has been sentenced in a San Jose, California, federal court to 35 months in prison, three years probation, and deportation to his native country of Ukraine. Russian authorities have jailed a hacker who not only created his own malware, but ran two websites distributing more than 4,000 different computer viruses. Microsoft said two people who helped identify the creator of last year's Sasser worm will share a reward of $250,000. The teen behind the Sasser and Netsky computer worms has avoided a prison sentence, despite admitting he was responsible for the worms that brought computers around the world to a grinding halt and caused millions of dollars was damage. As workforces are becoming increasingly mobile, companies are searching for a variety of technologies to secure mobile users. A Hungarian court has fined a virus writer $2,400 for infecting tens of thousands of computers. A Hugarian court has fined a virus writer $2,400 for infecting tens of thousands of computers.