Man Sentenced for Releasing Computer Worm
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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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A new worm has been discovered in the wild that&#39;s not just settling for invading users&#39; PCs - it wants to invade their homes too.
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A Portland man was sentenced to six months in federal prison for breaking into a NASA computer systems in 2001 and causing more than &#36;200,000 in damage.
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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 new worm has been discovered in the wild that&#39;s not just settling for invading users&#39; PCs--it wants to invade their homes too.
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A British man was sentenced Friday to 14 years in prison for infecting two young women with HIV and putting 13 more at risk of infection, reports said.
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A German teenager who created the Sasser worm that disrupted computers around the world in May has been charged with computer sabotage, prosecutors said.
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$133K salary awaits Fujacks fiend A Chinese virus writer sent to jail for four years earlier this week has being offered a well-paying job by one of his victims.â¦
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Sophisticated computer worm is setting up a botnet that may be hard to beat.
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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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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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Two Moroccan men have received jail sentences in connection with last year's Zotob worm outbreak, according to new reports.
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A new computer worm emerged on Tuesday which broke the speed record from the announcement of a security vulnerability in Microsoft&#39;s Internet Explorer to a full-blown virus that spreads in the wild.
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A former executive with Computer Associates who pleaded guilty to securities fraud was sentenced to seven months in prison and seven months of home detention.
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iBackups sunk The owner of one of the largest software piracy websites in the US has been handed a record sentence of seven years in prison.â¦
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A man caught with plans for a missile on his computer was sentenced Tuesday to 3 1/2 years in a British prison after being convicted of a terrorist offense.
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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.