Previous
Investigator Charged In HP Spy Case
News One of the private investigators hired to ferret out the source of a news leak at HP has been charged with federal identity theft and conspiracy. Wagner, along with Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP, and three others have already been...
[January 11, 2007, 7:56]
Florida Man Charged In Botnet Attack On Akamai
News A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial-of-service attack against servers run by Akamai Technologies. A federal court in Boston on Tuesday heard charges that 32-year-old John Bombard of Seminole used a variant of the...
[October 25, 2006, 16:40]
Man Charged With Stealing Cabinet Office Laptop
News Police have charged a man with theft after he allegedly stole a laptop from the Cabinet Office on Monday, according to Scotland Yard. He had been held for questioning since Tuesday, but was only charged on Wednesday morning.
[July 30, 2003, 15:15]
LoveBug Suspect Charged
News A man thought to be behind the LoveBug worm has been charged with credit card fraud by the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), according to reports Thursday. The NBI has reportedly charged Guzman under the Access Device Act, which...
[June 30, 2000, 15:35]
Australian Telecoms Hacker Charged
News A Sydney man has been charged over a hack attack on Optus last year, during which it is alleged over 400,000 customer passwords may have been compromised. The man was charged with unauthorised modification of data with intent to cause impairment to...
[July 11, 2002, 8:25]
Alleged TJX Hackers Charged
News Eleven people have been charged with hacking major US retailers, including TJX. Albert 'Segvec' Gonzalez, from Miami, was charged on Tuesday with computer fraud, wire fraud, access-device fraud, aggravated identity theft and conspiracy.
[August 6, 2008, 13:34]
Microsoft's Fast Unit Charged With Accounting Fraud
News Microsoft's recently acquired Fast Search & Transfer was charged on Thursday with accounting fraud by Norwegian officials, according to a Reuters report. According to Reuters, police raided Fast's offices in Oslo in order to preserve evidence.
[October 17, 2008, 15:25]
AMD Worker Charged With Intel Trade-secrets Theft
News The FBI has charged an engineer with stealing trade secrets from Intel, his former employer, after taking a position with rival chipmaker AMD, The Boston Globe reported on Friday. A search of Biswahoman Pani's home in Worcester, Massachusetts, on 1...
[September 15, 2008, 8:53]
Motion-charged Mobiles Edge Closer
News When fully charged, M2E's device can recharge a phone at a speed comparable to an AC outlet. The charger unit can also be charged by an AC wall socket. Next year, M2E Power expects to release a charger that can harvest enough energy from walking to...
[August 26, 2008, 17:05]
Corel CEO Charged With Insider Dealing
News The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) also said it has charged Cowpland's personal holding company M.C.J.C. Holdings Inc. The charges will be heard at the Ontario Court of Justice on Nov. If found guilty, Cowpland could face up to two years in...
[October 15, 1999, 8:49]
Man Charged In DEC Hacking Affair
News A London man is to appear in court next week after being charged with attempting to hack into a charity Web site set up to raise relief funds for victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. Daniel James Cuthbert, 28, of Whitechapel in East London has...
[February 11, 2005, 14:30]
News Burst: Corel CEO Charged With Insider Trading
News The Ontario Securities Commission also said it has charged Cowpland's personal holding company M.C.J.C. Holdings. The charges will be heard at the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto on Nov. If found guilty, Cowpland could face up to two years in...
[October 15, 1999, 8:09]
Five Israelis Charged Over Goner
News Five Israeli minors have been charged for allegedly creating the Goner virus, according to reports. According to the newspaper Ha'aretz,, the five have been charged in the Haifa District Court with willfully causing damage to computers belonging to...
[August 6, 2002, 12:45]
Ex-IT Worker Charged With Sabotage
News A two-count indictment charged 60-year-old Roger Duronio with being behind the more than $3m (about £2m) in damage caused when malicious programs placed on some 1,000 of UBS PaineWebber's nearly 1,500 computers became active on 4 March and deleted...
[December 19, 2002, 8:08]
Alleged CastleCops Attacker Charged
News A man has been arrested and charged with launching denial-of-service attacks against two organisations, one of which was voluntary security community CastleCops. King has been charged with "four counts of electronic transmission of codes to cause...
[October 4, 2007, 17:39]
Man Charged With Enigma Machine Theft
News A man will appear in court Monday charged with stealing the historic Enigma code machine from a British wartime museum, following a suitably cloak and dagger investigation by authorities. Dennis Yates, who has been charged with stealing the Enigma...
[November 20, 2000, 12:09]
Intel Worker Charged With Terrorism Offences
News The Justice Department has charged Intel engineer Mike Hawash, who has been held in solitary confinement since 20 March, with conspiracy to levy war against America and of supporting terrorist organisations.
[April 29, 2003, 15:13]
Internet Pioneer Charged Under RIP Act
News Cliff Stanford, one of Britain's Internet pioneers, has been charged under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act 2000 with conspiracy to blackmail and the illegal interception of communications.
[February 13, 2004, 16:35]
Man Charged With IPod Email Hoax
News The denial of service attack saw the Cambridgeshire police switchboard flooded with calls last week, after a hoax email told recipients their credit cards had been charged £399.95 for an iPod player and encouraged users to call a 'customer service...
[December 9, 2003, 16:00]
Mobiles To Get Motion-charged Batteries
News As the device is used, its battery can be charged through everyday hand movements alone. US mobile power-generation firm M2E Power has developed a mini-generator for mobile devices which turns kinetic energy into electricity, using the principle of...
[November 22, 2007, 15:54]
