A 26-year-old Rochester woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison for her role in a credit card scam… View full post on credit card scam – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Verizon claims most data breaches undiscovered for months or years
Over 90 percent of data breaches are the result of external attacks and almost 60 percent of organisations discovered them months or years later, Verizon claimed at the RSA security conference. Called the Verizon 2011 Investigative Response Caseload Review, it compiles statistics from 90 data breach cases investigated by the…
British Facebook hacker sentenced to eight months in prison
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UK Facebook hacker jailed for 8 months
A York-based software development student has been sentenced to eight months in jail for hacking into social networking site Facebook, including three of its servers, from his bedroom. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hungarian hotel hacker sentenced to 30 months in prison
A Hungarian hacker who attempted to extort money from Marriott by stealing confidential data from its computers and threatening to expose it was sentenced to 30 months in prison last week. Attila Nemeth, 26, will also serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, US prosecutors said. Nemeth…
Marriott hacker gets 30 months in prison
Attila Nemeth’s accommodations for the next 2.5 years won’t exactly be like a Marriott. The Hungarian man was convicted on charges that he hacked into the computer system of the giant hospitality chain and threatened company executives that he would leak sensitive data unless they met his demands. And you…
Gazette.Net: Marriott hacker-blackmailer gets 30 months in prison
A Hungarian man was sentenced Friday to 30 months in prison for hacking into Marriott International’s computers and trying to blackmail the Bethesda hotel giant into giving him a job — as a computer specialist. View full post on federal hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Woman Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison for Operating Pirated Video Website
A founder of a website that allowed millions of people to illegally download movies and TV programs was sentenced Friday to 22 months in prison, according to a press release by the U.S. Attorneys Office. German Shooter ‘Crysis 2′ Tops Most-Pirated Computer Games List In 2011‘Fast Five,’ ‘Hangover II,’ ‘Thor’…
Former teacher gets 79 months in prison for child porn
Friday December 30, 2011 BRATTLEBORO — A former teacher at Brattleboro Union High School was sentenced Wednesday to 79 months in federal prison on two counts — possessing and receiving child pornography. The case against Eric Achenbach, now 62, began in November 2008 when two deer hunters found pornographic images…
Malware attacks on Android phones go up 472 percent in four months
London, Nov 19 (ANI): Malware infections targeting Google‘s Android mobile operating system have increased by 472 percent since July this year, an IT security firm has revealed. Juniper Networks revealed that malware attack rates amongst Android users are going up at their highest rate ever, putting huge pressure on Google…
