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UK Facebook hacker sentenced to jail for a year

...UK, and got PCeU officers to track down Crosskey. The hacker was sentenced to a year in prison at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday, having... Read more

17 May, 2012

Gang members sentenced over Apple and Amazon fraud

Three people have been sentenced for participating in a massive online music fraud, in which the gang... Read more

30 March, 2012

MI6 software engineer sentenced for data breach

...engineer who tried to sell MI6 staff lists for £2m has been sentenced, the BBC reported on Friday. Daniel Houghton, who tried to sell the... Read more

6 September, 2010

Teenage GhostMarket kingpin sentenced to jail

...jailed for five years. Nicholas Webber, 19, an ex-public schoolboy, was sentenced by Judge John Price at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday, after admitting... Read more

3 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Gamer sentenced for stealing Steam passwords

A former University of Salford student has received an eight-month suspended sentence for harvesting details to play on the Steam platform, in a rare conviction under the Computer Misuse Act Read more

18 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Man jailed for Facebook hack despite 'ethical' claims

...man who hacked his way into Facebook's internal systems has been sentenced to eight months behind bars. The breach took place in April 2011... Read more

20 February, 2012

Hacker tries to blackmail Marriott for a job

A 26-year-old Hungarian man has been sentenced to more than two years in prison, after he attempted to blackmail... Read more

6 February, 2012

Ex-Ofcom IT head jailed for £500k fraud

...former IT services boss for the telecoms regulatory body Ofcom has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for defrauding the organisation... Read more

9 June, 2011

Woman jailed after stealing SIM card from power meter

...An Australian woman has reportedly been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing a SIM card from a... Read more

6 May, 2011 by Marguerite Reardon

Bank programmer gets eight years for code theft

A former Goldman Sachs programmer was sentenced on Friday to eight years in prison for stealing code from the... Read more

19 March, 2011

Londoner gets two years for Facebook riot posts

...others to take part in the London riots in August has been sentenced to serve two years in a young offenders institute. Terry Balson set... Read more

9 May, 2012
A decade of tech scandals

A decade of tech scandals

...his sentence. Jeff Skilling, Enron's former chief executive (bottom left), was sentenced to 24 years in prison. The once-swaggering exec was interviewed recently... Read more

27 November, 2010 by Staff

Hacker jailed over BPAS abortion service attack

...Service, one of the country's leading abortion providers. James Jeffery was sentenced to two years and eight months on Friday at Southwark Crown Court... Read more

16 April, 2012

'Anonymous' abortion service hacker pleads guilty

...collective had anything to do with the BPAS hack. Jeffery will be sentenced at a later date Read more

12 March, 2012

Pirate Bay founders denied Supreme Court appeal

...original sentence of a year will stand. In 2010 Lundström was sentenced to 4 months, and Neij and Sunde's were sentenced to 10... Read more

2 February, 2012

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

3 hours ago by Lonnie on Screenshots: Photoshop CS6 Beta
BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

10 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

10 hours ago by Horace Ontalhold on Fusion-io lays minefield with a billion IOPS
BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

13 hours ago by bobandroid on London Olympics: BT needs 25,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

15 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

15 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

16 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

19 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

19 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

21 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

21 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

23 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

23 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

23 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

1 day ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths
Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

1 day ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

2 days ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry