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DMCA case verdict: Not guilty
News After much wrangling among attorneys over the definition of the word "willful", the judge told jurors that in order to find the company guilty, they must agree that company representatives knew their actions were illegal and intended to violate...
[December 18, 2002, 8:08]
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]
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]
E-gold execs plead guilty in money-laundering case
News The executives in charge of online payment system E-gold have pleaded guilty to money-laundering charges, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Principal E-gold director Douglas Jackson, who is also chief executive of E-gold affiliate Gold...
[July 23, 2008, 14:19]
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]
Hitachi will plead guilty to LCD price-fixing
News Hitachi has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices on the sale of LCD panels. The Japan-based electronics firm agreed to pay a $31m (£22m) fine as part of its deal with the US Justice Department.
[March 11, 2009, 11:26]
Best Buy 'blackmailer' pleads not guilty
News A Mississippi man pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he threatened to reveal security weaknesses in the Web site of electronics seller Best Buy unless the company paid him $2.5m (£1.37m). Federal prosecutors charged Thomas E Ray III with...
[January 8, 2004, 8:20]
Seven Britons guilty over child porn ring
News Seven British men have pleaded guilty for their participation in the world's biggest Internet pornography ring. The seven were among 180 arrested on 2 September 1998 after a massive international police operation involving 12 countries to break...
[January 10, 2001, 15:59]
Second alleged hacker pleads guilty in TJX case
News A second hacker accused of involvement in the massive data breach at TJ Maxx's parent company, TJX, pleaded guilty on Monday, according to reports. The plea comes almost two weeks after Damon Patrick Toey pleaded guilty to his role.
[September 24, 2008, 11:49]
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]
Alleged mastermind behind TJX hack pleads guilty
News Albert Gonzalez, the alleged ringleader of the largest identity theft in US history, has agreed to plead guilty to all 19 counts of related charges against him, according to court documents filed on Friday.
[September 1, 2009, 14:56]
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]
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]
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]
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]
US spammer pleads guilty
News Daniel Lin, the first person prosecuted under the 2004 US federal anti-spam law, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to three felony charges, federal prosecutors announced. Two of the counts were related to sending millions of unsolicited spam emails, and...
[January 20, 2006, 8:50]
Hacker pleads guilty to ID thefts worth millions
News A 28-year-old Miami man who made millions breaking into computer networks and stealing credit-card numbers pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to forfeit more than $2.7m in restitution, as well as property, jewellery and a car.
[September 14, 2009, 9:25]
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]
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]
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]
