SC Magazine

Australian Edition ▼

POPULAR: authority , certificate , certificate authority ssl

WHAT WE'RE FOLLOWING: RSA Asia Pac • Carding and fraud • Jobs • Print edition

US man banned from web businesses

In Hackers - By Liam Tung, 14 January 2011 1:03 PM

Targeted former customers.

German man arrested for webcam spying

In Applications - By Iain Thomson, 20 July 2010 9:54 AM

Accused may have spied on over 150 girls.

Man charged with attacking O'Reilly, Giuliani websites

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 20 May 2010 1:31 PM

Targets conservative icons.

Serious vulnerability in SSL discovered

In Applications - By Angela Moscaritolo, 6 November 2009 11:25 AM

Attacker could intercept an SSL-protected session.

Brad Pitt declared most dangerous man on the internet

In Web/client - By Shaun Nichols, 17 September 2008 10:13 AM

'Brad Pitt' has been found to be the most dangerous search name of the year.

FBI warns of hit man scam

In Messaging - By Iain Thomson, 29 August 2008 10:05 AM

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning internet users of spam emails claiming to come from internet hit men.

Florida man arrested after huge data theft

In Hackers - By Matt Chapman, 6 December 2007 12:40 PM

A senior database administrator in the US has admitted stealing the details of 8.5 million customers over a period of five years..

NSW man charged over alleged online school threat

In Web/client - By Negar Salek, 13 November 2007 5:17 PM

NSW Police have charged a 30-year-old Western Sydney man after allegedly posting a threatening message against a Sydney high school on an internet site last week.

Authorities hope arrest of Ukraine man leads to TJX orchestrator

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 22 August 2007 7:29 AM

Authorities believe the recent arrest of a Ukrainian man in Turkey on identity theft charges could lead police to the brains behind the TJX data breach.

Arizona man sentenced in credit card theft ring

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 17 August 2007 10:03 AM

An Arizona man who obtained stolen credit card numbers from overseas hackers and then used the data to withdraw money from cash machines has been sentenced to 84 months in prison.

Aussie stung in $1.8million email scam

In Messaging - By Fiona Raisbeck, 10 August 2007 9:39 AM

An Australian man has lost $1.8 million in a Nigerian email scam, according to reports.

NSW man charged with child pornography offences

In Web/client - 15 June 2007 2:07 PM

The Australian Federal Police has arrested a NSW man for online child pornography offences.

Man sues Symantec for computer crash

In Hackers - By Fiona Raisbeck, 5 June 2007 9:40 AM

A Chinese man is suing information security giant Symantec for the collapse of his computer following an anti-virus update from the company last month.

Man sues Microsoft over porn surfing history

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 6 March 2007 10:21 AM

PC fails to keep suspect's Internet Explorer history secret.

Singapore man faces 180 years in prison

In Hackers - By Frank Washkuch, 9 January 2007 5:57 PM

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.

British man, 19, pleads guilty to email attack on former employer

By Dan Kaplan, 24 August 2006 3:19 PM

A British man pleaded guilty Wednesday to launching a DoS attack on his former employer's email server.

Man charged over medical college database theft

By René Millman, 25 July 2006 12:31 PM

A 46-year-old man has been charged with stealing the membership database held at the American College of Physicians (ACP) in Philadelphia.

N.H. man settles spyware suit with Washington state, pays $2,000

By Dan Kaplan, 8 June 2006 10:08 PM

A New Hampshire man who used the Microsoft name in advertisements to trick customers into purchasing ineffective spyware software reached a settlement this week with Washington ...

New York man settles with Washington State in spyware case

By Dan Kaplan, 9 May 2006 10:07 PM

A New York man who allowed his name to be used as an alias in business conducted by a company accused of violating Washington state’s computer spyware law has reached a ...

DOJ snags San Diego man for USC breach

By Ericka Chickowski, 21 April 2006 9:45 PM

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced yesterday that it charged a San Diego man for hacking into the University of Southern California’s student application system and ...

Oregon man fined 84K under Washington anti-spyware law

By Frank Washkuch, 19 April 2006 7:33 PM

An Oregon man was fined $84,000 for fraudulently marketing anti-spyware software on the internet.

Botnet man arrested

By René Millman, 4 November 2005 2:48 PM

The FBI has arrested a 20-year-old man after he created a botnet of more than 400,000 infected machines, installing adware on them and making $60,000. As a side business the ...

San Fran man faces can after laptop raid

By David Quainton, 16 September 2005 3:33 PM

A San Franciscan has been arrested after selling a laptop containing personal information of nearly 100,000 Berkeley University students.

Iowa man accused of phishing scam

By Marcia Savage, 24 August 2005 1:36 AM

A 22-year-old man from Davenport, Iowa, has been charged with 75 counts of wire fraud in connection with a phishing scheme targeting Microsoft customers.

Lovelorn man hacks Thai gov website

By René Millman, 8 August 2005 10:51 AM

A Indonesian hacker broke into an official website of the Thai governement and left love notes for his girlfriend over the weekend.

Man accused of "world's biggest hack" fights extradition

By David Quainton, 28 July 2005 12:02 PM

The man accused of the world’s biggest hack began extradition charges yesterday in a bid to stay out of the clutches of U.S. law.

Court stops spam man

By René Millman, 21 July 2005 2:39 PM

A federal court in Perth, Western Australia, has issued interim injunctions under the Spam Act against Clarity1 Pty Ltd and its managing director Wayne Mansfield to stop them ...

Australian man faces multi-million dollar spam fine

By René Millman, 24 June 2005 11:29 AM

An Australian man faces a multi-million dollar fine after being accused of sending 56 million spam emails. The charges are the first to be bought under that country's stringent ...

Man in Japan canned for spam

By David Quainton, 17 May 2005 11:41 AM

A Japanese man has been arrested in his country’s first spam case.

Gobbledegeek stumps the common man

By David Quainton, 4 April 2005 5:08 PM

Millions of computer users are baffled by incomprehensible jargon used to define online risks, a new report claims.

Ex-AOL man pleads guilty to selling 92 million email addresses

By René Millman, 8 February 2005 12:54 PM

A former employee of AOL has pleaded guilty to stealing 92 million email addresses from the ISP's databases.

Spanish man arrested on webcam hacking charge

By René Millman, 19 January 2005 1:25 PM

Spanish police have arrested a 37-year-old man in connection with writing and distributing a trojan which hijacks unsuspecting users' webcams.

Man pleads guilty to creating Blaster variant

By Marcia Savage, 13 August 2004 4:57 AM

A 19-year-old Minnesota man accused of creating a variant of last year's devastating Blaster worm pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Seattle Wednesday.

Florida man charged in huge database break-in

By Marcia Savage, 23 July 2004 6:56 PM

A federal grand jury indicted a 45-year-old Florida man in connection with a scheme to steal a huge amount of personal information from a database belonging to Acxiom.

Anti-spam man slams wireless firms

By Dan Ilett, 9 July 2004 3:05 PM

Anti-spam vendor Commtouch has slammed wireless router manufacturers for failing to protect networks from spammers.

FOLLOW US...

Please check your email

Most Read