South Carolina Bill Targets Cybercrimes with Up to 10-Year Prison Terms

Computer hackers and unauthorized informants could face up to 10 years in prison under a proposed state law designed to protect South Carolina military installations from WikiLeaks-type scandals. Charleston Republican Rep. Chip Limehouse announced on Monday that his bill, which will be considered...

Man Pleads Guilty in $4.8m ATM Fraud

A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to automatic teller machine ATM fraud on Tuesday following a scheme that conned $4.8 million from a Rhode Island bank over the last few years. John DeMilo of Branford, Conn. faces jail time for helping defraud Cranston-based Domestic Bank. Between 2000 and 2010,...

Top 5 best criminal computer hackers of all time

These hackers are the ones that you've seen in shackles arrested for cybercrimes when they were just getting out of puberty. Some have done it for financial gain others just for fun. 1. Kevin Mitnick. Mitnick is perhaps synonymous with Hacker. The Department of Justice still refers to him as "the...

U.S. Court Finds Two Russian Hackers Guilty of $1.3 Million Bank Fraud

A US court has found two Russian hackers guilty of bank fraud, involving over $1.3 million. The investigation revealed that the fraudsters broke into computer systems of various companies and used the obtained banking data to steal money from their bank accounts. Authorities believe the fraudster...

Comcast Defacer Sentenced to 4 Months

A former member of the hacker gang Kryogeniks was sentenced to four months in prison for his role in a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Read the full article. Wired...

Pump and Dump Hacker Gets 7-Year Sentence

An Indian national was sentenced to 81 months in prison for hacking into online brokerage accounts and using those accounts to manipulate stock prices for personal gain. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Ransomware Tactic Lures Via Copyright Scare

An ongoing ransomware campaign is pretending to be the fake ICPP Foundation icpp-online.com, where the ransomware locks down the user’s desktop issuing a “Copyright violation: copyrighted content detected” message which lists torrent files found on the infected PC and forces the user to pay $400...

DDoS Worm Creator Heading to Prison

An Estonian virus writer has been jailed for two and a half years for creating a Windows worm family that launched denial of service attacks on the websites of a local insurance firm and ISP. Read the full article. The Register...

Founder of DarkMarket Faces Hefty Jail Time

A former London pizza delivery man, Renukanth Subramaniam, 33, faces a 10-year prison sentence after admitting he helped found the notorious DarkMarket forum for computer crime. Read the full article. The Register...

Prisoner Hacks Prison Employee Info in Jail

A former Massachusetts prison inmate has been given an 18-month prison sentence for hacking prison computers while he was incarcerated. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Southern California Man Gets 11 Years in Slammer for ID Theft Ring

Martin Quoc Pham, 28, of Garden Grove was sentenced by a judge to 11 years in Federal prison for spearheading an identity theft ring targeting home equity lines. The compromised accounts of JP Morgan Chase customers were fraudulently accessed and lines of credit were stolen including nearly $1...

FreeBSD <= 6.1 kqueue() NULL pointer Dereference Local Root Exploit

No description provided by source. FreeBSD = 6.1 suffers from classical check/use race condition on SMP systems in kevent syscall, leading to kernel mode NULL pointer dereference. It can be triggered by spawning two threads: 1st thread looping on open and close syscalls, and the 2nd thread loopin...