Nelnet Employee Sentenced

An employee of a Lincoln company involved with student loans has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Twenty-three year old Diane Benford was convicted of unauthorized computer access. View full post on … View full post on National Cyber Security

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Ex-band director sentenced for sex acts

A former assistant band director was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for sex acts he committed on a teenage boy in March 2011. View full post on computer virus prison – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security » Virus/Malware/Worms

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Two Amarillo men sentenced for meth charges

NewsChannel 10 Amarillo, Texas – Two men who admitted to selling drugs in Amarillo were sentenced in Federal court Wednesday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 20 year old Valentin Sanchez was sentenced to 45 months and Jose Pando was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison. Both were arrested in November of 2011 and…

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UK hacker sentenced for stealing 8 million IDs

A 23-year-old British hacker who swiped the identities of 8 million victims and shut down part of Nokia’s internal network for two weeks will spend the next 26 months behind bars. Edward Pearson, from York, in Northern England, used several covert cyberweapons, including the notorious bank-account-stealing Zeus Trojan, to steal…

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