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Article | 16/05/2013 Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the grou...
Article | 16/05/2013 Megaupload can appeal evidence ruling in NZ Supreme Court
New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday granted Megaupload leave to appeal a ruling that denied it access to evidence the U.S. government holds.
Article | 13/05/2013 New York calls on phone makers to help deter theft
The New York State attorney general has sent letters to the chief executives of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Samsung asking them for help in combating...
Article | 10/05/2013 Smartphones driving violent crime across US
On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point...
Article | 10/05/2013 Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud
A vast debit card fraud scheme that allegedly netted $US45 million has been linked to the hacking of credit card processors in the US and India.
Article | 8/05/2013 Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands
A 35-year-old Dutchman suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on antispam organization Spamhaus was extradited from Spain to the Netherland...
Article | 2/05/2013 Hedge fund manager sentenced in Dell insider trading case
A former portfolio manager at the now defunct Diamondback Capital Management has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for crimes related to a multimi...
Article | 29/04/2013 AU Optronics executive sentenced for LCD price-fixing
A former executive with AU Optronics was sentenced Monday to serve two years in prison and pay a US$50,000 fine for participating in a worldwide LCD s...
Article | 29/04/2013 Spanish police say DDoS suspect used a van as a mobile office
The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an antispam organization that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove around Spain in ...
Article | 26/04/2013 Dutchman arrested in connection with large DDoS attack on Spamhaus
A 35-year-old Dutchman was arrested Thursday in Spain, as part of an investigation into a large-scale DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack that...
Article | 19/04/2013 Former LulzSec member gets prison sentence for Sony Pictures hack
Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 brea...
Article | 16/04/2013 Pirate Bay co-founder charged with hacking IBM mainframes, stealing money
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was charged with hacking the IBM mainframe of Logica, a Swedish IT firm that provided tax services to th...
Article | 15/04/2013 Boston cell networks stay online after blasts
Cellular networks in Boston were still operating on Monday evening following the explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, contrary to e...
Article | 15/04/2013 Chinese iPhone dealers dupe Apple with fake components
A group of Chinese iPhone distributors have been arrested for duping Apple with fake components in order to obtain replacement parts worth about 400,0...
Article | 28/03/2013 Authorities bust global credit card fraud network targeting POS terminals and ATMs in Europe
A global credit card fraud network was shut down on Thursday as the result of an international police operation called "Pandora-Storm" that saw the pa...