A New York couple have been charged with defrauding a wealthy musician to the tune of $20 million (£12.3 million) after he innocently visited their computer servicing company to have a virus removed from his laptop. The hard-to-believe story started started in 2004 when moneyed pianist Roger Davidson asked Mount…
V3.co.uk readers call for harsher prison terms for scareware writers
“What I don’t understand is these scareware scammers have bank accounts into which no doubt some people pay – so why are not the authorities following these cyber trails and prosecuting the b******s,” wrote a reader named Mike. Another reader, known as ‘MSC’, wrote simply: “Hang them.” Around 31 per…
London hacker who posed as student gets suspended sentence
Newsletter Sign-Up Receive the latest news, reviews and trends on your favorite technology topics Article source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/112610-london-hacker-who-posed-as.html?source=nww_rss Tags: hacker, id theft, prison, Spyware. Category: Prison Time Article source: http://nationalcybersecurity.com/?p=41199
‘The Era of Cyber Warfare’ – Alex Shipp of TrustDefender to Present at 2010 e
ShareThis Email PDF Print “We are living in the era of cyber-warfare, where attacks can be made globally by any person in any location. comments Alex Shipp (PRWEB) November 26, 2010 Leading pioneer of online security, Alex Shipp will be a keynote speaker at the 2010 e-Crime conference in the…
Records tip leads to prison
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Federer and Murray make semis of ATP
LONDON Roger Federer and Andy Murray easily secured spots in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals yesterday with straight-sets victories in their last round-robin matches. Federer continued his dominance over Robin Soderling, beating him 7-6 (5) 6-3 to gain the top spot in Group B of the season-ending…
Prison for hacking right-wing figures
ShareTweet CLEVELAND, Nov. 11 (UPI) — An Ohio man who admitted hacking into the Web sites of well-known conservatives while he was a University of Akron student has been sentenced to 30 months. A federal judge in Cleveland ordered Michael Frost, 23, of Bellevue, Ohio, to pay $40,000 in restitution…
Conroy responds to report on cyber crime
Attorney-General, Robert McClelland, and Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, have backed a standing committee report on cyber crime. The report, Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime, contained 34 recommendations from the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications, Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets on how…
Eastday-Man jailed for computer system fraud
A former employee at a local computer company has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for stealing 200 labels with the serial numbers of authorized Windows XP systems and selling them to an agent at a software company. The serial numbers would then allegedly be sold to…
New era of online terrorism is here, security firm says
TORONTO – David DeWalt knows Stuxnet is just the beginning. As the president and chief executive of computer security company McAfee Inc., Mr. DeWalt spends his time waging war against the proliferation of viruses and other forms of malicious software, or malware, spreading across the Web. But in June, when…
