Internet Vandal Gets 2 Years in Prison
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By Wendy Leonard Deseret Morning News  A man who intentionally caused a widespread Internet blackout in the Vernal area earlier this yea was sentenced Thursday to two years in prison.
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Two convicted developers of the notorious Zotob worm, designed last year to infect Windows 2000-based systems, were sentenced today to one and two years in prison, Maghreb Arabe Presse is reporting this afternoon.
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A teenager was sentenced Friday to 1 1/2 years in prison for unleashing an Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003.
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Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday.
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A computer systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Tuesday for trying to sabotage his company's servers out of fear he was about to lose his job, prosecutors said.
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A teenager has pleaded guilty in California to teaming up with another man to illegally install adware on hundreds of thousands of PCs through a series of botnets. He now faces up to a year and a half in prison.
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The former White House aide was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail, plus a fine of $250,000.
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Malicious-toolbar distributor pays more than $2 million in federal settlement.
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Just because your friends distribute 20,000 copyrighted works... An Illinois man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his part in an organized online software distribution conspiracy, the US Department of Justice announced late last week. That's warez, if you don't prefer the grandiose.â¦
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By Josh Richman  A San Pablo man who broadcast child pornography over the Internet and tried to meet a woman whom he believed would let him have sex with a 9-year-old child was sentenced Friday to six and a half years in federal prison.
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A man was convicted in a Virginia court on Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited emails using fraudulent email address is facing nine years in prison after becoming the first person to be convicted under new anti-spam laws.
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By ANN SANNER  WASHINGTON - A 59-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 8 1/2 years in prison on charges stemming from his use of stolen identities in an attempt to acquire more than $100,000 in payments intended for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
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A combined 24 years and a recommendation to deport Three men have been jailed for their use of the internet to incite terrorism. The three were convicted after entering a late change of plea to 'guilty' earlier this week.â¦
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The noose appears to be tightening around one of Europe's largest software counterfeiting rings as a German court sentenced a second member of the network to prison on Monday, and handed a sentence to his father for helping run front operations.
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A man was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for deceiving Mississippi insurance regulators as part of a now-disgraced financier's scheme to steal &#36;200 million from insurance companies in five states.
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By The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--A Rio Rico man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for downloading child pornography from the Internet.
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A Los Angeles man who spewed porn advertisements from his car likely faces up to six months in jail.