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Music Pirate Faces Prison Term
News The defendant in the case, 21-year-old Mark Shumaker, faces a prison sentence of up to five years and a maximum fine of $250,000 (£157,998). He faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted on all the charges against him.
[August 22, 2003, 10:45]
US 'botmaster' Faces 60-year Prison Spell
News A Los Angeles man is facing up to 60 years in prison and fines of up to $1.75m (£839,000) after admitting to infecting at least 250,000 PCs with information-stealing malware. By day, 26-year-old John Kenneth Schiefer worked as a security consultant...
[November 12, 2007, 7:02]
Software Bug Causes Prison Release Glitch
News According to an Italian court clerk's computer, convicted Mafia killers set for release from prison next week should have actually been set free on 10 January 1900. Other prisoners awaiting trial were shown to have a hundred year wait before they...
[January 4, 2000, 12:31]
Phone Phreaker Avoids Prison After Running Up £106,000
News A British telephone phreaker who ran up £106,000 worth of free telephone calls through a Nicaraguan telephone exchange, narrowly avoided prison Monday when he was given a 2 year suspended sentence at Southwark Crown Court.
[October 12, 1999, 10:35]
Software Engineer Sentenced To Prison
News A former security software engineer convicted of providing technology to a piracy group known as DrinkOrDie was sentenced Thursday to nearly three years in prison. Erickson, who is scheduled to serve 33 months in prison followed by two years of...
[May 3, 2002, 10:54]
Sasser's Author Escapes Prison
Talkback Juvenile justice. It may sound frustrating, but the fact is that criminal liability, including liability for cyber crimes, can be fixed only if there is a culpable intention behind the same. This culpable intention is again bifurcated as per the...
[July 12, 2005, 7:38]
Prison For Samsung Exec Over Price Fixing
Talkback I dont think micro (crucial) were involved in this. Can anyone confirm?
[September 25, 2006, 12:35]
Sasser's Author Escapes Prison
Talkback Wow. That's a bit harsh, far too vigorous on the sentancing and 30hours community service on top. It's a scandle. Sven Jaschan should appeal and if he wins he should be able to claim millions in compensation.
[July 11, 2005, 15:14]
Sasser's Author Escapes Prison
Talkback Isn't the joke on us? For making it possible that a student boy can graft up code that is capable of damaging countless PC's in a jiffy? And judging from sales figures here and there the average consumer seems to shout: MORE, MORE, MORE!
[July 12, 2005, 0:22]
Hacker Dodges Prison Term
News A hacker has been sentenced to eight months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for compromising accounts on an Internet dating site. Matthew Byrne pleaded guilty to gaining control of and defacing four member profiles on the loveandfriends.com...
[November 8, 2006, 15:18]
Former Informix Head Sent To Prison
Talkback This article is incorrect in stating that "Informix is now owned by IBM". IBM bought some products from the Informix company, but not the company itself. The company was renamed Ascential and continues to do business on the NASDAQ.
[May 28, 2004, 6:01]
Prison For Samsung Exec Over Price Fixing
Talkback Three white collar prisoners are hanging around the yard comparing notes: Former Exxon executive: They say I charged too much for oil. I'm in for price gouging. Former Microsoft executive: They say I charged too little for software.
[September 25, 2006, 13:43]
Sasser's Author Escapes Prison
News A German judge on Friday handed down a suspended sentence of one year and nine months to the teenager who admitted he created last year's Sasser computer worm. In addition, 19-year-old Sven Jaschan has to complete 30 hours of community service...
[July 11, 2005, 9:25]
Naughton Looks Set To Escape Prison
News Former Infoseek executive Patrick Naughton probably won't be going to jail, despite his conviction on charges of travelling across state lines to have sex with a minor. Naughton, 35, who pleaded guilty in March, faces sentencing in federal court...
[August 9, 2000, 9:54]
Teenager Jailed For Web Attacks
Talkback Sending a 17 year old boy to prison for a non-violent crime is sick. But the USA with 1/4 of the world's prison population is obviously a very sick society, piss-poor in solutions: war and prison are its answer to everything.
[August 18, 2005, 12:27]
Old PCs Go To Jail
News Inmates at a new federal prison in California will soon be able to join the high-tech economy via the burgeoning field of electronics recycling. Meanwhile, critics have blasted prison labour as unfair both to the inmates and to the private sector...
[February 16, 2002, 6:31]
Hacker Mitnick's Happy New Year
News Mitnick's licence came up for renewal in 1999, when he was still serving a prison sentence for computer fraud, theft and other convictions. A former fugitive from justice who wound up serving a five-year prison term for computer crimes against...
[December 27, 2002, 9:34]
Film-swappers Face Three Years' Jail
News A forthcoming copyright bill backed by key US senators would place file swappers in prison for up to three years if they have a copy of even one prerelease movie in their shared folders. In addition to the prison term, the Artists' Rights and Theft...
[November 13, 2003, 7:55]
US Charges Email Scammers
News A quartet of suspected email scammers — three of them Nigerian citizens — could face scores of years in prison if convicted on fraud and conspiracy charges, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.
[March 24, 2006, 9:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We'd love to find the dangerous criminals we've accidentally released from prison", says the Home Office, "but we can't find them on the police computer. Silly of me to wonder, of course, the ID card people are bound to have thought of that — and...
[April 28, 2006, 18:25]
