Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front PLF associated with Anonymous hacktivism. The logs maintained by HideMyAss.com, in addition to other evidenc...

14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft

14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft A 21 year old man received a 14 year prison sentenced on Friday for running an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information with losses estimated at more than $3 million. Tony Perez III, of Hammond, Indiana,...

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges A Harvard researcher Aaron Swartz has been arrested in Boston for broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a non-profit online service for distributing scholarly articles, and downloaded 4...

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee...

Bangladeshi young man jailed for cyber crime !

Accused youth created a Facebook account in the name of the girl and uploaded nude photos of the victim A Bangladesh court sent a young man charged for cyber crime and cyber bullying to prison on Saturday. Shakil Ahmed, 23, created a Facebook account in the name of his victim and uploaded photos,...

Texas Man admits hacking into e-commerce servers of NASA !

A Texas man has admitted hacking into servers owned by an e-commerce company and making off with about $275,000. Jeremey Parker of Houston also copped to charges of breaking into servers maintained by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and causing some $43,000 of damage. The hacking...

Two Arrested For Hacking Accounts, Card Cloning !

South District Police has arrested a gang of miscreants and arrested two people accused of hacking accounts for international clients' and to make a clone of your bank or credit cards of different banks. The third defendant is untraceable. A gang of three youths, who are experts at hacking into...

Two men charged for Hacking into AT&T Website !

Two men were arrested on Tuesday and are facing charges of fraud and conspiracy to access a computer without authorization, following an investigation that started with last year's much publicized harvesting of e-mails and AT&T authentication IDs of 114,000 early-adopters of Apple's iPad. Accordi...

Rapper Lil Wayne's Twitter account hacked !!

Rapper Lil Wayne has become the latest victim of web hackers when his Twitter account was compromised by an internet prankster. The 28-year-old hip hop star has suspended his Twitter account after the hacker sent a number of objectionable messages to his fans and followers, reported Contactmusic...

Sarah Palin's E-Mail Hacker Begins Prison Term !

A former University of Tennessee student convicted of hacking the e-mail account of former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin during the 2008 presidential campaign has begun his one-year sentence in an unfenced federal prison camp in Kentucky, authorities said Thursday. According to a statement issued ...

Dongfan "Greg" Chung (Boeing)

Chung, a 72 year old engineer from Orange, California was charged with eight counts of economic espionage in 2008. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice, Chung, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had secret clearance for work on the U.S. Space Shuttle program that he performed as an...

Fei Ye and Ming Zhong (Transmeta, Sun Microsoystems, NEC and Trident Microsystems)

Ye and Zhong were alleged to have obtained trade secrets, including designs for super integrated circuit chips from a variety of Silicon Valley firms through a front company, Supervision, Inc. a/k/a Hangzhou Zhongtian Microsystems Company Ltd. The two posed as legitimate businessmen interested in...

Yonggang "Gary" Min (DuPont)

Min worked at Delaware based chemicals giant DuPont for over a decade before he surreptitiously took a job at DuPont competitor, Victrex. Over a four month period after accepting that offer, and before informing DuPont of his decision, Min systematically copied thousands of pages of confidential...

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...