The notorious spammer authorities dubbed "the King of Spam" is facing a possible 26-year jail sentence after pleading guilty in Seattle on Friday to charges of fraud and tax evasion.
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Dodgy downloader sent downA Seattle man who admitted using file-sharing programs to pinch personal information on 50 people as part of an ID theft scam has been jailed for four years.…
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/04/trojan_anniversary_featureBy Ryan Singel Wired.com04.24.08About 3,000 years ago Thursday, some Greeks left the people of Troy a wooden horse at the walled city.s front gate -- a free gift, no cost, no obligation from would-be invaders who wanted their adversaries to think they had left in peace.Accepting the Trojan horse at face value turned out to be a big mistake.Some things never change. In the 21st century Trojan horses are made of electronic "1
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Many unhappy returnsSpam celebrates its 30th birthday on Saturday (3 May).…
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10512203The New Zealand HeraldMay 24, 2008An Auckland computer hacker, who scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars and attracted the FBI to New Zealand, has been jailed for three years.Thomasz Grygoruk, 22, was jailed on five charges of blackmail, document and computer fraud when he appeared in the High Court at Auckland yesterday.Grygoruk spent five years and used an internet scam getting personal details from people to make A" cards. He
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IT managers will have significant new challenges on their hands as client capabilitiesand form factorsevolve....
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid?articleID=208403740By Thomas ClaburnInformationWeekJune 12, 2008A San Diego network engineer, Jon Paul Oson, was sentenced to more than five years in prison this week for intentionally damaging computers at his former workplace.The sentence issued Monday is one of the longest imposed to date in the United States for computer hacking, according to the Office of the U.S. Attorney in San Diego.Oson was convicted last summer of a
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'If we played by the rules right now we'd be in gym?'Updated A pair of US teens are looking at an extended spell behind bars over accusations they hacked into school computers to change their grades.…
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The mad woman in the atticA flaw in how the internet's addressing system works that sparked a patching frenzy on Tuesday night may has first been uncovered by a student as long as three years ago.…
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:25:36 -0500 (CDT)http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/09/dns_bug_student_discovery/By John LeydenThe Register9th July 2008A flaw in how the internet's addressing system works that sparked a patching frenzy on Tuesday night may has first been uncovered by a student as long as three years ago.Shortcomings in how the Domain Name System protocol is implemented by multiple vendors facilitate DNS cache poisoning attacks, security clearing hous
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:35:20 -0500 (CDT)Forwarded from: jf <jf (at) danglingpointers.net>and 3 years before that djb pointed it out as well, its not coincidence that djbdns was not vulnerable.http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/forgery-cost.txthttp://cr.yp.to/talks/2003.02.11/slides.pdfOn Thu, 10 Jul 2008, InfoSec News wrote:> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:25:36 -0500 (CDT)> From: InfoSec News <alerts (at) infosecnews.org>> To: isn (at) infosecnews.org>
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