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Arrested al-Qaeda suspect has Cern links
Blog French authorities have arrested a man connected with Cern over suspected links to al-Qaeda. The 32-year-old man was arrested in the French town of Vienne on Thursday. According to a report by the BBC, the arrested man is believed by French police...
[October 9, 2009, 17:34]
Man arrested for porn domain deceit
News Federal law enforcement officers arrested a man on Wednesday for allegedly creating misleading domain names to deceive children and direct them to pornographic Web sites. The US attorney for the Southern District of New York, James Comey, and the...
[September 4, 2003, 17:00]
Teen hacker arrested
News The US Justice Department announced that Chad Davis, 19, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested and charged in a federal complaint with hacking into the US Army computer and maliciously interfering with the communications system.
[September 1, 1999, 9:29]
Six arrested over 'Nigerian email' frauds
News Six people were arrested in South Africa last weekend on suspicion of being involved in the infamous Nigerian email and letter fraud. Four of those detained were Nigerian, one was Cameroonian, and the sixth was South African.
[May 21, 2002, 14:13]
Two arrested over Zotob worm
News Law enforcement officials have arrested two men suspected of unleashing of a pair of computer worms, including last week's Zotob, which hit servers at American Express, The New York Times and elsewhere.
[August 30, 2005, 8:50]
Peeping Taiwanese Trojan author is arrested
News Taiwanese police have arrested a man for writing and distributing a Trojan that was apparently used by Chinese hackers to steal and destroy information on government-owned computers in Taiwan. Wang An-ping, 30, an engineer from Kaohsiung, has...
[May 28, 2004, 12:30]
Teen arrested for AOL hack
News His brother dropped out of New Rochelle High School after he was arrested in 1997 on another computer-related charge -- using the Internet to buy computer equipment and paying with bogus, possibly home made money orders.
[March 22, 1999, 9:28]
Fourteen arrested after Internet child porn investigation
News Scotland Yard has said that 14 people were arrested early on Tuesday morning across the UK and Ireland on suspicion of distributing child pornography across the Internet. The police arrested four men, aged 32, 28, 23 and 20, at two addresses in...
[October 30, 2001, 15:22]
UK man arrested in phishing probe
News UK Police have arrested a 21-year-old man they suspect of running a phishing scam that targeted customers of online bank Smile. The unnamed man has been released on bail while a specialist data forensics team examines computer equipment that was...
[February 7, 2005, 14:10]
Alleged TJX data trafficker arrested
Blog A Ukrainian man has been arrested outside a Turkish nightclub for allegedly trying to flog credit card details online, lifted from the victims of the TJX hack, reports the Associated Press. The man, Maksym Yastremskiy, was arrested weeks ago on...
[August 23, 2007, 17:17]
Young worm-creator arrested in US
News The US Department of Justice announced on Friday that a juvenile had been arrested in connection with the release of a computer worm that spread in the same way as the MSBlast worm. A suspect in the earlier case, Jeffrey Lee Parson of Minneapolis...
[September 29, 2003, 8:54]
Man arrested for tsunami email scam
News Twenty-four-year-old Matthew Schmieder, who is accused of sending emails purporting to be from a genuine aid organization, was arrested last week. A man has been released on bail after being charged with stealing donations for tsunami relief.
[January 18, 2005, 12:25]
HP forger arrested in China
News Authorities in China have arrested the suspected leader of a counterfeit group for allegedly producing and selling fake Hewlett-Packard goods. Although the individual's identity has been withheld by Chinese officials and HP, the arrest was a result...
[August 15, 2002, 10:59]
Man arrested in BitTorrent probe
News Hong Kong authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man who is accused of sharing copyrighted files over the Internet. According to Associated Press reports, Hong Kong's Customs and Excise Department arrested the unnamed man after an investigation...
[January 14, 2005, 13:30]
'Buffalo Spammer' arrested for ID theft
News New York state authorities have arrested the email marketer "Buffalo Spammer", in the state's first criminal case against a junk mailer. On Wednesday, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said that his office brought four felony and two misdemeanor...
[May 15, 2003, 9:17]
Suspected phisher arrested
News A California man who allegedly duped America Online customers into disclosing their credit card information over the Web was arrested on fraud and other charges Thursday. According to the charges, Jeffrey Brett Goodin of Azusa, California, used the...
[January 27, 2006, 9:30]
First virus writer arrested in Japan
Blog It isn't illegal to write viruses in Japan, so the [alleged] author of the Trojan horse has been arrested for breaching copyright because he used cartoon graphics without permission in his malware. Under Japanese law writing malicious code isn't...
[January 25, 2008, 16:55]
Copycat phisher arrested for Smile attacks
News Police have arrested a 21-year-old British man suspected of launching a phishing attack, in which he allegedly tried to trick users into revealing their bank account details, on customers of the Smile online bank.
[April 29, 2004, 12:30]
US tech worker arrested in city network hijack
News A network administrator for the city of San Francisco has been arrested on charges of taking control of the city's computer network and locking administrators out, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
[July 16, 2008, 8:46]
Estonian arrested over Web bank thefts
News Police in Estonia have arrested a man suspected of stealing millions of Euros from bank accounts across Europe. The unnamed 24 year-old, from the Estonian capital Tallinn, is believed to have infected hundreds of computers with a Trojan horse...
[April 4, 2005, 16:15]
