Elsewhere: Blaster B Virus Creator Pleads Guilty
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A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to infecting thousands of businesses and U.S. government computers with the Blaster B virus.  Jeffrey Lee Parson of Hopkins, Minnesot...
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BMcWilliams writes &quot;Russell McGuire, one of the government lawyers who prosecuted spammer Jeremy Jaynes, has published an article justifying the tough sentence recommended by a Virginia jury.
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Third British-based man pleads guilty to using internet to spread extremist propaganda.
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A third insurance company executive pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges in connection with New York state Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer&#39;s investigation of payoffs and bid-rigging in the insurance industry.
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A computer technician who prosecutors said made possible the largest identity theft in US history, surpassing $50 million (?40 million), pleaded guilty Tuesday
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John Bombard faces up to two years in prison for distributed denial-of-service attack.
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An Iowa man has pleaded guilty to charges related to his role in an underground network that distributed pirated software, games, movies and music over the Internet.
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A former Microsoft Corp. worker pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to participating in a software sales scheme with three others that defrauded the company of more than &#36;32 million.
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Following his arrest in May, the teenage computer wizard admitted to police he wrote the code for Sasser and more than two dozen Netsky viruses that wreaked havoc across the Internet during the first few months of 2004.
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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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A federal judge sentenced a teenager to  a year and half of prison on Friday for releasing a variant of  the Blaster worm that was used to attack more than 48,000  computers.
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The California plaintiff's attorney who helped turn class-action lawsuits into a lucrative trend pleaded guilty yesterday to a conspiracy charge stemming from his role in a wide-ranging kickback scheme.
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The founder and former head of Take-Two Interactive Software, the maker of the Grand Theft Auto video games, pleaded guilty to falsifying records.
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A former Senate computer technician pleaded guilty Wednesday to having child pornography on his office and government-issued laptop computers.
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A Minnesota high school senior pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to unleashing a variant of the "Blaster" Internet worm, which crippled more than a million computers last summer.    Jeffrey Lee Parson, 19, of Hopkins, Minn., is likely to face 18 months to three years behind bars after pleading guilty to one count of intentionally causing or attempting to cause damage to a protected computer...
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A former Abu Ghraib guard pleaded guilty Tuesday to battery and two other charges in the Iraqi prison abuse scandal as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors.
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A software developer whose program was accidentally labeled a threat is considering action against the antivirus company.