NSA Leaker 'Reality Winner' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison

A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison. Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman who held a top-secret...

10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web

By Waqas The hacker also sold drugs on Dark Web and taught This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 years prison for man who hacked 200 firms & sold data on Dark Web...

Code Execution Vulnerability in xyhcms v3.5

Xing Yunhai CMS XYHcms is a completely open source CMS content management system. xyhcms v3.5 version of the code execution vulnerabilities , attackers can exploit the vulnerability to insert a sentence Trojan horse to obtain the website webshell...

Young Hacker, Who Took Over Jail Network to Get Friend Released Early, Faces Prison

Well, "a friend in need is a friend indeed" goes a long way, but in this case, this phrase hardly makes any sense. A 27-year-old Michigan man who hacked into the government computer system of Washtenaw County Jail to alter inmate records and gain early release for his friend is now himself facing...

After 27-Year Sentence, Russian Hacker Faces Another 14 Years in Prison

Roman Valerevich Seleznev, the son of a prominent Russian lawmaker who's already facing a 27-year prison sentence in the United States, has been handed another 14-year prison sentence for his role in an "organized cybercrime ring" that caused $59 Million in damages across the US. In April this...

Hacker Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI & CIA Director Gets 5-Year in Prison

Remember "Crackas With Attitude"? The hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of senior officials at the FBI, the CIA, and the White House, among other United States federal agencies in 2015. A member of Crackas With Attitude, who was arrested las...

Chinese Man Who Sold VPNs Gets 9 Months Prison Sentence

By Carolina In July this year, it was reported that Apple had removed This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese Man Who Sold VPNs Gets 9 Months Prison Sentence...

Suspended Sentence for Mirai Botmaster Daniel Kaye

Last month, KrebsOnSecurity identified U.K. citizen Daniel Kaye as the likely real-life identity behind a hacker responsible for clumsily wielding a powerful botnet built on Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly secured Internet of Things IoT devices for use in large-scale online attacks...

Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal

An appellate court puts the final seal on Ulbricht's life sentence, rejecting arguments about corrupt investigators and the injustice of his harsh sentence. The post Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal appeared first on WIRED...

The Backstory Behind Carder Kingpin Roman Seleznev’s Record 27 Year Prison Sentence

Roman Seleznev, a 32-year-old Russian cybercriminal and prolific credit card thief, was sentenced Friday to 27 years in federal prison. That is a record punishment for hacking violations in the United States and by all accounts one designed to send a message to criminal hackers everywhere. But a...

US Court Sentences Russian Lawmaker's Son to 27 Years in Jail for Hacking

The son of a prominent Russian lawmaker was sentenced on Friday by a US federal court to 27 years in prison after being convicted of stealing millions of US credit card numbers and causing some $170 million in damages to businesses and individuals. This sentence is so far the longest sentence eve...

Hacker who stole Celebrity Emails, Tapes, Movie Scripts Gets 5 Years in Prison

A hacker who was arrested last year for hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal the unreleased movie and television scripts, their private messages, and tapes to sell them has finally been sentenced five years in prison. Alonzo Knowles, a 24-year-old Bahamian man, was convicted by U.S...

Hacker Who Hacked Official Linux Kernel Website Arrested in Florida

Around five years after unknown hackers gained unauthorized access to multiple kernel.org servers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel, police have arrested a South Florida computer programmer for carrying out the attack. Donald Ryan Austin, a 27-year-old programmer...

FBI 'Double Agent' Pleads Guilty to Selling 'Classified Information' to China

An FBI electronics technician has pleaded guilty to acting as a Chinese secret agent and passing along sensitive information about the Feds to a Chinese government official. Kun Shan "Joey" Chun, 46, admitted in federal court in Manhattan on Monday that he violated his security clearance on sever...

Employee Stole 'Yandex Search Engine' Source Code, Tried to Sell it for Just $29K

A former employee of Russian search engine Yandex allegedly stole the source code and key algorithms for its search engine site and then attempted to sell them on the black market to fund his own startup. Russian publication Kommersant reports that Dmitry Korobov downloaded a type of software...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2038

The NMEA0183 driver in gpsd before 3.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon termination and possibly execute arbitrary code via a GPS packet with a malformed $GPGGA interpreted sentence that lacks certain fields and a terminator. NOTE: a separate issue in the AIS driver was...

The Pirate Bay Cofounder 'Gottfrid Svartholm Warg' will be extradited to Denmark

Sweden today has announced the extradition of 30-year-old The Pirate Bay Cofounder 'Gottfrid Svartholm Warg' to Denmark where he is wanted for questioning on alleged hacking charges. He was living in Cambodia last year but was later arrested and deported to Sweden. Currently he is serving a...

The Pirate Bay Cofounder 'Gottfrid Svartholm Warg' will be extradited to Denmark

Sweden today has announced the extradition of 30-year-old The Pirate Bay Cofounder 'Gottfrid Svartholm Warg' to Denmark where he is wanted for questioning on alleged hacking charges. He was living in Cambodia last year but was later arrested and deported to Sweden. Currently he is serving a...

LulzSec hacker sentenced to 1 year jail & ordered to pay $605,663 in restitution

A second member of hacking group LulzSec - Raynaldo Rivera, 21, of Tempe, Arizona, has been sentenced to 1 year in prison, 13 months of house arrest, and 1,000 hours of community service for hacking into the computers of Sony Pictures Entertainment. Raynaldo who went by Internet names ”neuron” wa...

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...