ROCHESTER, NY—U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that David George Smith, 47, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of wrecklessly causing damage to a computer domain, was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and to pay restitution to the victim company in the amount of $4,671 by…
DHS disputes memo on purported railway computer breach
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security and railroad industry say there was no targeted attack on a railway company. View full post on computer security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Canadian resident sentenced to death for writing a computer program
A Canadian resident has been sentenced to death in Iran for offending the faith, after his computer program was used without his knowledge to upload pornography. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
New Release of Industry Leading Computer Forensics Product Further Enhances Data Recovery of Internet-Related Evidence
WATERLOO, ONTARIO– – JADsoftware today announced the introduction of its industry leading computer forensics solution, Internet Evidence Finder v5 live from the United States Department of Defense's Cybercrime … View full post on computer forensic – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
North East News: Cramlington computer expert concealed child porn addiction
Jan 22 2012 by Michael Brown, Sunday Sun AN IT expert at a North council used his computer knowledge to conceal a child and bestiality porn addiction in one of the most sophisticated ways police have ever seen. Gary Storey created a “virtual computer” – a hidden section – on…
The gang that hijacked your computer
Five men believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks — and to have pocketed several million dollars from online schemes — are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to investigators at Facebook and several independent computer security researchers….
Hackers aren’t the only threat to your computer
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Facebook exposes hackers behind ‘Koobface’ computer worm
London, Jan 18 (ANI): Facebook has publicly identified a gang of five cyber criminals it believes to be behind Koobface computer worm, a piece of malicious software that attacked hundreds of thousands of computers through the social network's profiles. View full post on computer worm – Yahoo! News Search Results…
San Fran college’s computer network compromised (AP)
AP – The computer networks of a San Francisco community college have been infected with software viruses that illegally transmitted personal data from students and employees overseas, school officials said Friday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security
Montco man who put spyware on father’s computer gets probation
A Pottstown man convicted of putting spyware on his father’s computer to capture passwords to e-mail accounts was sentenced Wednesday to two years’ probation. Parth Ingle, 25, installed the program in an effort to find out if his father, Arunkumar, was having an affair. The elder Ingle was later found…