British Zynga hacker jailed for two years 

British Zynga hacker jailed for two years

In Hackers - By Tom Brewster, 22 March 2011 1:25 PM
Stole $11.4m of virtual chips.
VoiP mastermind hacker gets 10 years 

VoiP mastermind hacker gets 10 years

In Networks - By Liam Tung, 27 September 2010 9:10 AM
Sold 10 million stolen minutes.
MySpace changes privacy settings 

MySpace changes privacy settings

In Messaging - By Dan Raywood, 19 August 2010 12:32 PM
Users can determine whether people under 18 years old can view their profiles.
Judge halts fraud racket that went undetected for years 

Judge halts fraud racket that went undetected for years

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 29 June 2010 12:22 PM
Judge shuts down a well-orchestrated fraudulent credit operation.
Hacker accomplice gets five years prison 

Hacker accomplice gets five years prison

In Hackers - By Phil Muncaster, 19 April 2010 9:32 AM
Sold credit card data, aided hacking.
Hacker Albert Gonzalez receives 20 years in prison 

Hacker Albert Gonzalez receives 20 years in prison

In Hackers - By Angela Moscaritolo, 26 March 2010 1:58 PM
Largest ever U.S. prison sentence for a hacker.
"Iceman" hacker gets 13 years 

"Iceman" hacker gets 13 years

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 17 February 2010 10:41 AM
CardersMarket mastermind behind bars.
Hacker gets two years of stock manipulation 

Hacker gets two years of stock manipulation

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 11 September 2008 9:47 AM
A Malaysian hacker has been sentenced to two years in prison by US authorities for breaking into stock trading accounts
High school hacker looking at 38 years 

High school hacker looking at 38 years

In Hackers - By Shaun Nichols, 20 June 2008 10:08 AM
A California high school student could spend nearly four decades in prison for hacking into his school's computer system..
Debian, Ununtu flawed for two years 

Debian, Ununtu flawed for two years

By Stewart Meagher, 21 May 2008 11:36 AM
A research posting to the Debian security list last week has led to the confirmation of a serious hole in two flavours of the Open Sauce Linux operating system.
Hacker arrested accused of stealing and selling weapons data  

Hacker arrested accused of stealing and selling weapons data

In Hackers - By Jim Carr, 31 January 2008 10:22 AM
Authorities have arrested a 58-year-old man in Greece they said hacked into computer systems of France's Dassault Group for more than five years, stole sensitive weapons ...
Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison 

Child porn hacker sentenced to 110 years in prison

In Hackers - By Dan Kaplan, 4 December 2007 10:44 AM
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...
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

In Hackers - By Frank Washkush Jr, 13 November 2007 9:59 AM
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 ...
Student hackers face 20 years in jail 

Student hackers face 20 years in jail

In Hackers - By Iain Thomson, 7 November 2007 9:47 AM
Two students have been charged with hacking into the California State University database and changing their grades..
New storm worm run called largest virus attack in two years 

New storm worm run called largest virus attack in two years

In Web/client - By Frank Washkuch, 26 July 2007 9:53 AM
The infamous ‘storm worm' virus attack began another run last week, this one called the largest in two years by messaging security vendor Postini.
Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison 

Guilty CAN-SPAMMER faces nearly six years in prison

In Hackers - By Jim Carr, 18 June 2007 10:25 AM
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 ...
Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison 

Brooklyn spammer faces 11 years in prison

In Messaging - By Frank Washkuch, 14 June 2007 11:16 AM
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.
Pentagon hacker could face 60 years in prison after extradition to US 

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

In Hackers - By Fiona Raisbeck, 4 April 2007 10:29 AM
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.
Gartner: ID theft up 50 per cent in three years 

Gartner: ID theft up 50 per cent in three years

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 9 March 2007 5:03 AM
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.
Gartner: ID theft up 50 percent in three years 

Gartner: ID theft up 50 percent in three years

In Risk - By Dan Kaplan, 7 March 2007 10:32 PM
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.
Singapore man faces 180 years in prison  

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.
Former UBS system administrator gets eight years for logic bomb 

Former UBS system administrator gets eight years for logic bomb

In Hackers - By Ericka Chickowski, 19 December 2006 9:03 AM
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 ...
Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison 

Denial of service attackers face 10 years in prison

In Risk - By Fiona Raisbeck, 13 November 2006 11:50 AM
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.
Paedophile hacker jailed for 10 years 

Paedophile hacker jailed for 10 years

In Web/client - By Fiona Raisbeck, 10 November 2006 2:45 PM
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 ...
Dozen years in the slammer for former CA chief exec 

Dozen years in the slammer for former CA chief exec

In Risk - By Frank Washkuch, 3 November 2006 7:17 PM
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.
Florida hacker faces two years in jail, $400,000 fine  

Florida hacker faces two years in jail, $400,000 fine

In Risk - By Ericka Chickowski, 25 October 2006 12:46 AM
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 ...
Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail 

Convicted hacker sentenced to three years in jail

By Frank Washkuch, 29 August 2006 7:52 PM
A California man was sentenced to three years in prison last week for hacking into thousands of PCs, including some within the U.S. Department of Defense.
McAfee threat catalog doubles in less than two years 

McAfee threat catalog doubles in less than two years

By Ericka Chickowski, 7 July 2006 7:54 PM
Researchers at McAfee Avert Labs said this week that it took only two years to double the number of malicious threats registered in its vulnerability database.
Newspaper: Fed networks under attack, but security improvements years behind schedule 

Newspaper: Fed networks under attack, but security improvements years behind schedule

By Dan Kaplan, 5 July 2006 8:37 PM
A federal program to protect confidential information within the computer networks of various federal agencies is seven years behind schedule, the Baltimore Sun has reported.
Gates to step back from regular role at Microsoft in two years 

Gates to step back from regular role at Microsoft in two years

By Dan Kaplan, 16 June 2006 9:37 PM
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced Thursday that he will transition out of a regular role at the software giant by July 2008 to focus more time on his charitable foundation.
Mac OS X vulnerabilities jump 228 percent in three years 

Mac OS X vulnerabilities jump 228 percent in three years

By William Eazel, 5 May 2006 10:01 AM
Security experts warned today that malware attacks targeting Macintosh OS X are on the rise - and by no small margin.
Summer of Love Bug started six years ago today 

Summer of Love Bug started six years ago today

By Dan Kaplan, 4 May 2006 8:56 PM
Today marks the sixth anniversary of the release of the so-called Love Bug, a mass email worm that spread to millions of PCs worldwide and was responsible for an estimated $10 ...
University of Texas suffers second data breach in three years 

University of Texas suffers second data breach in three years

By Ericka Chickowski, 26 April 2006 6:07 AM
More than 197,000 personal records were exposed in a security breach at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, school officials said this week.
'Fat Spaniard' hacker faces 40 years in jail  

'Fat Spaniard' hacker faces 40 years in jail

By William Eazel, 11 April 2006 9:27 AM
An individual suspected of hacking hundreds of thousands of euros from bank accounts has been extradited from Argentina by international authorities.
Florida data thief gets eight years in slammer 

Florida data thief gets eight years in slammer

By Dan Kaplan, 23 February 2006 9:37 PM
A Florida man convicted of one of the largest data-intrusion crimes ever committed was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison.
Porn spammer faces five years behind bars  

Porn spammer faces five years behind bars

By William Eazel, 2 February 2006 3:02 PM
A U.S. individual faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of aiding and abetting the sending of spam containing graphic pornographic images.
Windows source code hacker gets two years 

Windows source code hacker gets two years

By René Millman, 30 January 2006 10:54 AM
A 29-year-old Connecticut hacker was jailed for two years for selling the source code of Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Botmaster faces six years in jail 

Botmaster faces six years in jail

By René Millman, 24 January 2006 11:20 AM
A 20-year-old man who seized control of hundreds of thousands of zombie computers, using them to display cash-generating adverts and renting them out to hackers to send spam ...
Two years after Gates prediction, spam still exists 

Two years after Gates prediction, spam still exists

By René Millman, 23 January 2006 2:43 PM
It has been two years since Microsoft's Bill Gates made the bold prediction that spam would be a “thing of the past," but the problem is still as bad as ever, according to new ...
20 years of the PC virus 

20 years of the PC virus

By Frank Washkuch, 19 January 2006 8:57 PM
If you saw someone buying 20 candles for a cake today, he or she could have been a hacker. That's because today marked two decades since the detection of boot sector virus ...
Detroit spammer faces years behind bars  

Detroit spammer faces years behind bars

By William Eazel, 13 January 2006 10:24 AM
A man accused of sending millions of illegal spam emails from compromised computers belonging to, is expected to plead guilty in a U.S. court session on Tuesday.
'Dr. Chaos' gets seven more years in jail 

'Dr. Chaos' gets seven more years in jail

By Frank Washkuch, 1 December 2005 8:20 PM
The hacker responsible for a series of Wisconsin power failures five years ago was sentenced to seven more years in federal prison this week.
Nine years for spam master 

Nine years for spam master

By David Quainton, 11 April 2005 10:56 AM
Spam king Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison on Friday, but allowed to remain free while he appeals the decision.
Phone viruses widespread in two years 

Phone viruses widespread in two years

By David Quainton, 13 December 2004 3:56 PM
Mobile phone viruses will become rife within two years, according to an industry expert.
Four years for Australian fraudster 

Four years for Australian fraudster

By David Quainton, 9 November 2004 3:52 PM
An Australian email fraudster who stole more than AUS$5 million ($3.7 million) has been sentenced to four years in jail. Nick Marinellis, who worked with a team of African ...
Wireless hacker faces 15 years in jail 

Wireless hacker faces 15 years in jail

By Dan Ilett, 7 June 2004 3:40 PM
A wireless hacker faces up to 15 years in jail for stealing credit card numbers from a chain of shops in the US.
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