Nanny agency hacker fined
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Told to sit on the naughty stool A woman who admitted rifling through emails in AOL accounts maintained by her former employer, Nannies Inc, while working for a competitor agency, has been fined Â£500 plus Â£60 costs.â¦
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Insurance firm Norwich Union is fined Â£1.26m for exposing some of its customers to identity fraud.
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The makers of programs that spy on what people do with their home PCs could face hefty fines in California.
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Social-networking site Xanga.com Inc. and its operators said yesterday that they would pay a $1 million fine for alleged violations of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, at a time of heightened parental and government concern about children's safety online.
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A Russian member of well-known 29A virus writers group has been fined 3,000 roubles (approximately Â£57) after he admitted writing malicious code.
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(InfoWorld) - The sellers of the Spyware Slayer antispyware program have agreed to pay US$300,000 in fines to settle charges that they violated Washington State spyware and consumer protection laws. Both the charges and the settlement were filed Wednesday in King County Superior Court in Seattle, said Washington State Assistant Attorney General Katherine Tassi. Two companies, both controlled by the same owners, were named in the settlement, she said: High Falls Media LLC, of Hilton, New York, and Roc Telecommunications LLC, of Rochester, New York. Company associates Thomas Tortora, Mark Libutti and Brian Einhaus, all of New York, were also named as defendants. They could not be reached immediately for comment, and the freepcscan.com Web site used to market Spyware Slayer was no longer active on Wednesday. High Falls promoted Spyware Slayer with false pop-up ads warning victims that their computer was infected with spyware, Tassi said. If the victim tried to leave the site, another pop-up cautioned, "if you leave now, damage could be done by harmful worms, viruses, adware, spyware, malware or hacker code." These ads "were essentially startling consumers into believing that they had spyware on their computer," Tassi said. "They had a pop-up that said 'we have detected a 99 percent chance that you have spyware on your computer,' and this was just an advertisement. They had not done anything to detect anything." This type of inducement is illegal under Washington's Computer Spyware Act, but has become an "all too common mode of marketing security software," Tassi said. "We do see this as an increasing trend: the exploiting of consumer fears over spyware and adware as a way of marketing software products." Las week, Washington's attorney general announced a similar settlement with a New York man who used pop-up ads designed to look like Internet Explorer alerts. He was marketing a program called QuikShield Security, she said. Roc Telecommunications ran a number of music download sites, including 24/7 Downloads, Free Download Club, and MP3s Unlimited, which also engaged in deceptive marketing practices, Tassi said. The defendants have not admitted any wrongdoing under the agreement and will have the bulk of their $300,000 fine suspended, provided that they comply with the terms of the agreement and no longer misrepresent what they are selling. "They pay $25,000 of that and then the remaining portion hangs over their head as an incentive to comply with the injunctive provisions," Tassi said. The defendants must also pay $30,000 in legal fees and provide refunds to Washington state residents who purchased their products.
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Insurance firm Norwich Union is fined Â£1.26m after customers lost Â£3.3m through identity fraud.
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The Department of Justice on Wednesday said that an employee of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration who used his work computer to download child pornography has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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A computer hacker accessed names and Social Security numbers of about 1.4 million Californians after breaking into a computer system at the University of California, Berkeley in August.
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Bureau was target of an attempt to gain access to employees' user account information for its computer network.
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Hacking tools that let you unlawfully activate trial software can include malware used by hackers to steal financial data.
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A 20-year-old student has been fined for participating in last year's cyberattack against Estonian Web sites.
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Zaporozhye, Ukraine Hacker was arrested when accessed to computer system of AVAL Bank and tried to steal about 5 000 000 Ukraine Hrivnas (about $ 1 000 000) from the account of Zaporozhye Custom-house. ...
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Two spammers have been convicted of three charges of sending thousands of junk e-mails through servers located in Virginia. Jeremy Jaynes was sentenced to nine years in prison and Jessica DeGroot was fined $7,500 (Â£4,075).
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ExpertSource:     TOPIC: The Federal Trade Commission fined Xanga.com, a social networking Web site, $1 million for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), according to an article by MSNBC.
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Losing wager A trio of Russian hackers convicted of running denial of service attacks against UK bookies have each been sentenced to eight years imprisonment and fined $3,700.â¦
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Cyber bullies put in their place People who steal personal data in the UK will face up to two years' jail, the Government announced today.â¦