Dutch botnet hackers sentenced to time served
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Court sentences pair of hackers deemed responsible for hijacking millions of PCs to sentences that equal time-served and sent them home on probation.
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X marks the pest A Dutch spammer who used compromised PCs to spamvertise web sites has been fined â¬75,000 ($97,000) by Opta, the Netherlands telecoms regulatorâ¦
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A hacker who infiltrated the network of T-Mobile USA Inc. and accessed personal information of hundreds of customers, including a Secret Service agent, was sentenced Monday to one year of home detention.
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One of three Michigan men who hacked into the national computer system of Lowe's hardware stores and tried to steal customers' credit card information was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in federal prison.
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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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A man is jailed for at least 19 years after admitting hacking a 21-year-old woman to death.
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A court Friday convicted four Dutch Muslims of plotting terrorist attacks against political leaders and government buildings and sentenced them to up to eight years in prison.
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The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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Left online for 24 days to see how hackers would attack them, Linux PCs with weak passwords were hit by some 270,000 intrusion attempts.
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A Belgian court handed down maximum  prison sentences on Friday to a group of Islamist militants  convicted of links to organizations supporting Osama bin  Laden's al Qaeda network.
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AOL helped build a case that led to the conviction of one of the world&#39;s most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes. A state jury in Virginia has recommended a nine-year prison term in the nation&#39;s first felony trial of spam purveyors.
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One of the top 10 spammers in the US has been sentenced to nine years in prison for illegal spam activities under Virginia&#39;s anti-spam law.
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A former UBS PaineWebber systems administrator was sentenced Wednesday to eight years and one month in prison for attempting to profit by detonating a "logic bomb" program that prosecutors said caused millions of dollars in damage to the brokerage's computer network in 2002.
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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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A former UBS PaineWebber employee was sentenced to eight years in prison on Wednesday for planting a computer "logic bomb" on company networks and betting its stock would go down.
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Three German citizens and an American have agreed to serve jail time as part of an investigation into price fixing in the computer memory market.
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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.