A Tarrytown man has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison for identity theft and stealing Social Security benefits. Guillermo Hernandez pleaded guilty in July to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft. View full post on id theft prison – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
CanSecWest Pwn2Own hacker challenge gets a $105,000 makeover
HP Zero Day Initiatives revamps the annual hacker contest to put more zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits in play. View full post on firefox hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
River Thames gets security treatment before Olympics
LONDON– It is Britain's best-known river immortalized in the novels of Charles Dickens , and a waterway once so putrid that it shut Parliament because of its stench. View full post on could security – Yahoo! News Search Results 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…
Top German cop uses spyware on daughter, gets hacked in retaliation
Trojans—they’re not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record far more information than allowed by law. The story made headlines, but it lacked a certain sense…
Google Chrome finally gets malware download protection
Nine months after first being put into testing, the forthcoming version of Chrome will at last included filtering against inadvertently downloading malware executables, Google has announced. As reported as being on the browser’s long list as long ago as April 2011, the version 17 beta includes the ability to relate…
Man Gets New Trial After Court Records Erased
advertisement A man sentenced to life in prison for murder will get another trial because a courtroom stenographer accidentally erased the records of his previous trial, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported. Randy Chaviano, 26, was convicted of second-degree murder and armed drug dealing in 2009. An appeals court threw…
Transcript erased: Convicted South Florida killer gets new trial
A convicted killer will get a new trial — because a Miami-Dade court stenographer accidentally erased the transcript of his murder trial. In an unusual case, an appeals court last week threw out the conviction and life sentence of Randy Chaviano, 26, who was convicted by a jury in July…
Transcript erased: Convicted S. Fla. killer gets new trial
A convicted killer will get a new trial — because a Miami-Dade court stenographer accidentally erased the transcript of his murder trial. In an unusual case, an appeals court last week threw out the conviction and life sentence of Randy Chaviano, 26, who was convicted by a jury in July…
Hialeah convicted killer gets new trial because of stenographer error
A convicted killer will get a new trial — because a Miami-Dade court stenographer accidentally erased the transcript of his murder trial. In an unusual case, an appeals court last week threw out the conviction and life sentence of Randy Chaviano, 26, who was convicted by a jury in July…