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• Article | 25/05/2012 Mayor of New Jersey town arrested on hacking and conspiracy charges

  The mayor of West New York, New Jersey, was arrested together with his son on Thursday, for allegedly hacking into a website that criticized him and h...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Bredolab botnet author sentenced to 4 years in prison in Armenia

  The creator of the Bredolab malware received a four-year prison sentence in Armenia on Monday for using his botnet to launch DDoS (distributed denial-...
• Article | 17/04/2012 Operators of online drug ring arrested in global sweep

  The alleged ringleader of an online marketplace for illegal drugs was arrested Monday in Lelystad, Netherlands, capping two days of arrests and the in...
• Article | 12/04/2012 Court rules former Goldman Sachs programmer did not violate federal theft law

  Former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov did not violate the National Stolen Property Act and the Economic Espionage Act when he allegedly upl...
• Article | 30/03/2012 Do-it-yourself plan to take down Sality botnet outlined on public mailing list

  A method that anyone can use to hijack a massive multipurpose botnet called Sality was described in detail on a public mailing list on Tuesday.
• Article | 9/02/2012 EU to stengthen its cybersecurity watchdog

  A push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cybersecurity watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians.
• Article | 7/02/2012 Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere

  Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site.
• Article | 2/02/2012 Romanian authorities arrest man suspected of hacking into NASA and Pentagon servers

  Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man from the city of Timisoara on Monday under accusations that he hacked into computer systems belon...
• Article | 24/01/2012 Microsoft names alleged Kelihos botnet creator

  Microsoft has named a Russian man as the alleged creator of Kelihos, a spammy botnet that abused the company's Hotmail service until the botnet was sh...
• Article | 19/01/2012 Romanian NASA hacker gets a three-year suspended prison sentence

  Robert Butyka, a 26-year old Romanian man accused of hacking into multiple NASA servers, received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday af...
• Article | 28/12/2011 Ten IT news stories we'll read in 2012

  Well, we erred in our 2011 predictions in not repeating a 2010 forecast that Carol Bartz would be ousted as Yahoo CEO -- it was bound to happen, we ju...
• Article | 14/12/2011 15 top quotes of 2011

  As another year draws to a close, we look back on the IT-related comments that stuck with us.
• Article | 14/12/2011 Tech stories of 2011: Jobs, Android and Anonymous rank in top 10

  In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars s...
• Article | 9/12/2011 UK police arrest six in student loan phishing scam

  U.K. police arrested six people on Thursday for allegedly running a phishing scam that stole an estimated £1.6 million (US$2.6 million) from victims w...
• Article | 10/11/2011 DOJ charges seven in massive clickjacking scheme

  The U.S. Department of Justice is charging seven individuals with 27 counts of wire fraud and other computer-related crimes, alleging that the group h...