DDoS-for-hire service provider jailed

Matthew Gatrel, a 33-year-old man from St. Charles, Illinois, has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that provide powerful distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against internet users and websites. This sentencing resulted in the seizure of his websites, making the...

18-Year-Old Hacker Gets 3 Years in Prison for Massive Twitter 'Bitcoin Scam' Hack

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on...

Mirai Masterminds Helping FBI Snuff Out Cybercrime

The three masterminds behind Mirai – the infamous botnet known for taking down internet services in a 2016 DDoS attack – will work with the FBI in future cybercrime investigations as part of their sentencing for creating and operating the botnet. The three hackers, Paras Jha 22, of New Jersey,...

Mirai Botnet Authors Avoid Jail Time

Citing "extraordinary cooperation" with the government, a court in Alaska on Tuesday sentenced three men to probation, community service and fines for their admitted roles in authoring and using "Mirai," a potent malware strain used in countless attacks designed to knock Web sites offline --...

Hacker who leaked naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence jailed for 8 months

By Carolina A Connecticut, USA based hacker who hacked more than 200 iCloud accounts and leaked private photos of top Hollywood celebrities and other people was sentenced to eight months in prison last Wednesday 29. In addition to the incarcerated time, George Garofano, 26, is scheduled to serve...

Citrix SD-WAN Path State Sensitivity Control Overview

Bad Loss Sensitive – Select a setting from the drop-down menu. The options are: Enable– Default If enabled, paths will be marked BAD due to loss, and will incur a path scoring penalty. Disable – Disabling Bad Loss Sensitive can be useful when the loss of bandwidth is intolerable. Custom – Select...

No Prison for Student who Developed Spam Botnet to Pay College Fee

By Carolina Sean Tiernan, 29 from Santa Clara, California was given 24 months probation This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: No Prison for Student who Developed Spam Botnet to Pay College Fee...

Kim Dotcom loses Fight Against Extradition to the US

Internet millionaire and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and his three associates are eligible for extradition to the US to face criminal charges over massive copyright infringement on Megaupload now-shuttered, the court has ruled citing "overwhelming" evidence. On Tuesday afternoon, New Zealand...

College Student Gets Year in Prison for Wire Fraud in Tampering With Student Election

A former Cal State San Marcos student was sentenced to a year in prison this week for wire fraud and other charges related to election tampering by using keystroke loggers to grab student credentials and then vote for himself. Matthew Weaver, 22, of Huntington Beach, Calif., stole almost 750...

Hacker 'Cosmo the God' Sentenced and Banned from Internet for Six Years

A 15-year-old UG Nazi hacker going by the name of Cosmo or Cosmo the God was sentenced in juvenile court on Wednesday with terms for six years without any computers or Internet, until his 21st birthday. During these 6 years, he'll need approval from his parole officer to access the internet. Wire...

Disparate Sentences in Facebook Hacking, Webcam Spying Cases

A British man could spend as much as a year in prison after admittedly hacking into the private Facebook account of a pop star and actress, meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Dharun Ravi, who used a webcam to record his Rutgers University roommate in an intimate moment, will spend just...

Kentucky Resident Charged and Sentenced for Hacking !

HOPKINS COUNTY, KY – As technology advances by leaps and bounds on a daily basis, a Kentucky man has utilized his extensive computer skills to gain money, but ended up gaining three years of probation with the initial 300 days spent in a work release center. Walter Puckett, a 40 year old...

TJX Browser Exploit Accomplice Gets Probation

A computer security professional who sold Internet Explorer exploit code to credit card hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced Tuesday to three years probation and a $10,000 fine. Jeremy Jethro, 29, was paid $60,000 by Gonzalez for a zero-day exploit against Microsoft’s browser, “the purpose and...