German virus author charged woth cmputer sabotage
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The teenager accused of authoring the Sasser and Netsky worms has been formally charged with computer sabotage. Eighteen-year-old Sven Jaschan was arrested in May at his parents&#39; home in Waffensen, Lower Saxony, in northern Germany.
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Patrick Angle, was charged with intentionally deleting the source code for software he had been developing for Massachusetts-based Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates.
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for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e-mails, including one message that praised Hitler&#39;s book &quot;Mein Kampf&quot; and was disguised to appear as if it came
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InfoWorld - Spanish police have arrested a 28-year-old man on charges that he created variants of the CommWarrior and Cabir mobile phone viruses, according to published reports.
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A German teenager who created the Sasser worm that disrupted computers around the world in May has been charged with computer sabotage, a crime carrying a maximum five-year jail term.
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Crackers Updates to Germany's computer crime laws banning so-called "hacking tools" have been criticised as ill-considered and counterproductive.â¦
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A man has been charged in a case involving hundreds of doses of smuggled flu vaccine, apparently to cash in on the national shortage of the inoculations.
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One unidentified person was fined $57,931 for sending four messages, in one of which he &quot;borrowed&quot; the identify of the chief Dutch anti-spam expert to advertise an edition of Adolf Hitler&#39;s book &quot;Mein Kampf.
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According to reports, Sven Jaschan, who was arrested in May and charged with creating some of the most potent viruses to hit the internet, has been offered a job with Lueneburg, Germany-based Securepoint.
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A Gardena man is among 11 people charged in a federal investigation that led to the seizure of $87 million in counterfeit computer software, prosecutors announced Thursday.
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A German security firm has hired the teen accused of writing the Sasser and Netsky worms, a move that sends a dangerous message to hackers, anti-virus firms said Monday.
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A new computer virus, which is capable of switching on webcams, allowing the author to peep into people&#39;s lives, is doing the rounds.
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German prosecutors indicted an 18-year-old student on suspicion of creating the Sasser computer worm that paralyzed millions of computers around the world last spring.
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Prosecutors have charged 11 people in California, Texas and Washington state with conspiring to distribute more than $30 million of counterfeit computer software and products.
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A German software dealer has been convicted of counterfeiting Microsoft Corp. products and sentenced to three years in prison, authorities said Wednesday.
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A former security researcher who served time for hacking has been charged with new cybercrimes.
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A Swiss engineer suspected of helping Libya obtain nuclear weapons technology has been arrested in Germany, prosecutors said.