NASA hacker jailed for six months
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A US man has been jailed for six months for a 2001 attack on the web systems of space agency NASA which cost $200,000 to fix. Gregory Aaron Herns, 21, from Portland, Oregon, hacked into the network at NASA&#39;s
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An Israeli court on Monday sentenced Mordechai Vanunu, who in 2004 completed an 18-year prison term for spilling nuclear secrets, to six more months behind bars after he violated a ban on speaking to foreigners.
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A former midlevel Dynegy executive was resentenced to six years in prison for his role in a fraudulent accounting scheme.
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A former network engineer and technical services manager at a San Diego nonprofit was convicted of hacking into his former employer's computer system and sabotaging patient data.
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The former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems Inc. was sentenced on Wednesday to 21 months in prison for orchestrating a scheme to tamper with financial records of stock options the company offered.
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A Syrian man convicted of giving a false tip to a New York City anti-terrorism hotline, leading to five innocent men being investigated on suspicion of terrorism, was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in prison.
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A former teacher who has already served jail time for having sex with a 13-year-old student was sent to prison for more than six years Friday for violating her probation by sending the boy nude photos of herself.
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Jon Paul Oson, a one-time network engineer and technical services manager at the Council of Community Health Clinics in San Diegom was convicted last week of hacking into his former employer's computer system and sabotaging patient data.
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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 federal judge today sentenced George Ryan to 6 1/2 years in prison for racketeering and fraud.
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George Ryan was sentenced him to six and a half years in federal prison for racketeering and fraud.
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A Unix systems administrator is sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for planting a logic bomb that could have taken down a corporate network holding customer health care information.
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A 21-year-old Michigan man was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison for breaking into the network of home improvement retailer Lowe&#39;s, the longest jail term ever handed out in the US for hacking.
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Seymour M. Lazar was sentenced to six monthsâ home detention and a $600,000 fine for lying under oath about secret payments he received.
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A 37-year-old man who stored information on his computer about setting up a terror cell is jailed for nine years.
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A computer technician who prosecutors say touched off the largest identity theft in U.S. history was sentenced to 14 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who said the damage he caused was "almost unimaginable."
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A 24-year-old former American Online software engineer pleaded guilty Friday to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers, setting off an avalanche of up to seven billion unsolicited e-mails.