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A Man Was Sentenced for Participating in a DDoS Attack by Hacker Group Anonymous

Dec 4, 2013

A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...

Tags: Ddos Attack, Fined

A Former Tribune Company Employee Could Face as Much as 25 Years of Jail Time

Mar 14, 2013

A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 25 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website. Matthew Keys, who according to his ...

Tags: Tribune, Anonymous Hack, company news

A 22-Year-Old Dutch Man Who Sold Credit Card Details Online Was Sentenced on Friday

Feb 9, 2013

A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a U.S. prison in a fraud case that prosecutors alleged caused more than $63 million in damages, according to the Department of Justice. ...

Tags: Dutch man, credit card, U.S.prison

A Draft Bill to Exclude Terms of Service Violations From The CFAA

Jan 15, 2013

A draft bill to exclude terms of service violations from the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The proposed amendment to the anti-hacking law comes in the wake of the suicide on ...

Tags: Computer Fraud Law Amendment, policy, Computer Products, Computer

Aaron Swartz Has Been Found Dead in His Home in New York in an Apparent Suicide

Jan 14, 2013

, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...

Tags: Aaron Swartz, Reddit, RSS syndication tool, suicide

Swartz Was an Extraordinary Hacker and Activist Wrote in a Tribute

Jan 14, 2013

Aaron Swartz, 26, hanged himself in his flat weeks before he was to go on trial on accusations that he stole millions of articles from an electronic archive to make them freely available. If convicted he faced decades in prison and a ...

Tags: electronic archive, Aaron Swartz, Electronic Frontier Foundation, hacker

An Arizona Man Admitted His Involvement Computer Attack Against The Website

Dec 31, 2012

IDG News Service-An Arizona man has admitted his involvement in a May 2011 computer attack against the website of Sony Pictures Entertainment that was carried out by the now-defunct LulzSec hacker group. On Thursday,Raynaldo Rivera,20,of ...

Tags: LulzSec hacker group, Sony pictures hack

FBI Arrested Another Suspected Member of Hacking Group LulzSec

Dec 24, 2012

The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the now-defunct hacking group LulzSec in connection with a breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems. The 20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera surrendered to US authorities after a ...

Tags: LulzSec, Pictures Entertainment's computer systems, protected computer

A Russian Man Has Been Arrested in Cyprus on Charges

Dec 20, 2012

A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the ...

Tags: Russian man, Cyprus, attacks, Amazon.com, eBay

NASA Was Ordered to Pay Damages Totalling More Than $120,000

Oct 5, 2012

Romanian national Manole Razvan Cernaianu,known online as TinKode,received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle,NASA,the U.S.Army and the U.S.Department of Defense and was ordered to pay ...

Tags: NASA, TinKode, Oracle, computer-related offenses

A 20-Year-Old Man Surrendered to FBI Agents on Tuesday

Aug 29, 2012

A 20-year-old man surrendered to FBI agents on Tuesday for his alleged hacking of Sony Pictures, one of a wave of attacks executed last year by the hacking collective LulzSec. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, was indicted by a ...

Tags: FBI, Security, sony, US

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