Anti-spammer fined $60K for DNS lookup 'hack'
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Whois also ruled dodgy by North Dakota court David Ritz, the veteran American spam-fighter, has been hit by $60,000 in fines plus lawyers fees after losing a civil suit that accused him of illegal hacking.â¦
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To curb spam, users will be charged for accessing their e-mail via Outlook.
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Thirty-year-old Jeremy Jaynes, a US citizen settled in North Carolina, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sending junk e-mails with fraudulent and untraceable routing information.
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A federal judge has awarded an Internet service provider more than $1 billion in what is believed to be the largest judgment ever against spammers.
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A Las Vegas company has been fined $2.6 million and ordered to stop sending spam, making false claims.
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Network Solutions says it's trying to protect against people using inside information to scoop up desirable domain names before someone else can register it.
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A MAN convicted of violating anti-spam laws by sending out tens of thousands of unsolicited emails using fake addresses faces nine years in prison in Virginia, US authorities say.
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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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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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Cablevision and Comcast coddling criminals? Several weeks ago, security researcher Lawrence Baldwin dispatched an urgent email to abuse handlers at OptimumOnline, the broadband provider owned by Cablevision, warning that one of its customers stood to lose more than $60,000 to cyber crooks.â¦
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SAN JOSE, Calif.) - Phreaks, spoofers and spammers want to invade your home computer, and the tricks of their trade include airsnarfs, wabbits and fork bombs.
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Website shows how you can hit back, too An Edinburgh man has obtained damages of more than Â£1,300 from British-based spammer.â¦
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A 20-year-old Estonian student who wished to register his dismay with the removal of a statue has been fined for participating in a DDoS attack that paralyzed his own country's Web sites and caused international tensions with Russia.
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Among the more than 150 cybercrime arrests and convictions announced Thursday by the Department of Justice was an original: the nation&#39;s first case alleging denial of service attacks against competitors to knock them offline.
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Told to sit on the naughty stool A woman who admitted rifling through emails in AOL accounts maintained by her former employer, Nannies Inc, while working for a competitor agency, has been fined Â£500 plus Â£60 costs.â¦
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AN ISP CALLED Lycos has come up with a way of fighting spam that attacks the spammers servers. All you have to do is load a screensaver - &quot;Make Love Not Spam&quot; - available from Lycos Europe and it will requests
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Up to five years in prison A Washington-state man pleaded guilty to one felony count of computer fraud relating to charges he spread malware to users of an internet relay chat (IRC) channel. He faces up five years in prison and a $250,000 fine when he is sentenced in early May.â¦