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Liverpool Guilty Of Data Protection Offences
News Earlier this month, Liverpool Council was fined £300 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Data Protection Act. UK IT managers should take note of a prosecution brought by the Information Commissioner against Liverpool City Council.
[December 28, 2006, 13:06]
Global Hell Hacker To Plead Guilty, Part I
News The ringleader of the infamous hacker clan known as Global Hell is scheduled to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy for "telecommunications fraud" and "computer hacking" next Wednesday, ZDNN has learned.
[March 30, 2000, 16:20]
Guilty Plea From Akamai Hacker
News John Bombard, the Florida man who launched a distributed denial-of-service attack against caching company Akamai Technologies in June 2004, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to two counts of intentionally accessing a protected computer without...
[December 11, 2006, 15:03]
I'm Not Guilty For Other's Crimes
Talkback I can't see how I can ever possibly be guilty for any crimes commited by anyone accessing Internet systems via my access point, just as I don't expect my ISP to be guilty should I commit a crimes over their service.
[August 28, 2007, 11:16]
Palestinian Guilty In Email Death-trap Case
News A Palestinian woman was found guilty on Sunday for the voluntary manslaughter of a 16-year-old Israeli schoolboy that she met on the Internet. The plot was part of an online strategy to publicise the Palestinian cause.
[April 9, 2001, 14:18]
Former Admin Pleads Guilty To Data Deletion
News A former network administrator for computer-monitor maker ViewSonic pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally accessing a company server and deleting critical data two weeks after the firm had fired him, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
[October 7, 2003, 8:55]
He Pleaded Guilty So How Does One Justify $15m Legal Costs?
Talkback According to the article, he pleaded guilty 2 weeks before the trial started so can I have one of those jobs? Is this more creative accounting?
[November 21, 2006, 16:27]
Accused Piracy Leader Pleads Guilty
News The accused leader of an Internet piracy group known as DrinkOrDie could face up to five years in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement. John Sankus, Jr.who entered his plea in a Virginia...
[February 28, 2002, 9:38]
EBay Fake Painting Seller Pleads Guilty
News One of the defendants in a case involving the sale of a fake Richard Diebenkorn painting on eBay pleaded guilty on Tuesday to defrauding bidders. The guilty plea was part of an agreement federal prosecutors made with defendant Kenneth Walton, a...
[April 18, 2001, 9:43]
Seven Britons Guilty Over Child Porn Ring
Talkback Whle child abuse, and particularly child sexual abuse is totally dispicable, and those guilty deserve to feel the full weight of the law, I feel a distinction needs to be made between actual "hands on" abuse and viewing child pornography.
[April 22, 2004, 2:02]
Tsunami Appeal Site 'hacker' Found Guilty
News Daniel Cuthbert of Whitechapel in London was found guilty on Thursday afternoon of breaching Section One of the Computer Misuse Act, 1990, on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, 2004. Cuthbert, who at the time of his arrest had been employed by ABN...
[October 6, 2005, 16:10]
Former Chairman Pleads Not Guilty In HP Case
News Patricia Dunn, the former chairman of HP, pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges that stemmed from her role in overseeing a probe into boardroom leaks. At a brief arraignment hearing here in Santa Clara County Superior Court, Dunn's...
[November 16, 2006, 8:33]
Californian Bot Herder Pleads Guilty
News A US man has pleaded guilty to leasing out networks of compromised computers to criminals so they can carry out denial of service and spam attacks. Twenty-year old Californian Jeanson James Ancheta faces up to six years in prison for felony charges...
[January 24, 2006, 15:55]
Tsunami Appeal Site 'hacker' Found Guilty
Talkback Read the UK law, did he attempt to penetrate a site, Yes, which makes him guilty. Not knowing the law is not an excuse. Now, the Magistrae had no recourse but to follow the law. Once thing I do not understand his being a security expert why he did...
[October 11, 2005, 1:36]
Windows Code Seller Pleads Guilty
News A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to selling Microsoft source code over the Internet. William P Genovese Jr, 28, of Meriden, Connecticut, entered his plea on Monday in a Manhattan federal court to charges that he unlawfully...
[August 31, 2005, 9:55]
Demon Founder Pleads Guilty To Email Charges
News Clifford Stanford, the founder of Demon Internet and Redbus, pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to unlawful email interception. Codefendant George Liddell, a former employee of Redbus, also pleaded guilty to the same charge.
[September 15, 2005, 12:50]
Windows Code Seller Pleads Guilty
Talkback I am amazed that these guys were even charged let alone found guilty, after all Microsoft have been selling dodgy software for years!
[August 31, 2005, 14:48]
A Year Ago: Global Hell Hacker To Plead Guilty
News The first was 19-year-old Washington state resident Eric Burns, known online as Zyklon, who pleaded guilty in November for defacing the official White House web site. The ringleader of the infamous hacker clan known as Global Hell is scheduled to...
[March 30, 2001, 6:04]
Welsh Hacker Pleads Guilty To Credit Card Crime
News A Welsh computer hacker at the centre of a multi-million pound FBI fraud investigation has pleaded guilty to breaking into Internet sites for money, just days before going on trial. The teenager had previously pleaded not guilty to charges of...
[March 30, 2001, 14:32]
Man Arrested For MSBlast Pleads Guilty
News A 19-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet last summer. Jeffrey Lee Parson admitted creating the "MSBlast.B" variant, also called "teekids," by...
[August 12, 2004, 8:35]
