Estonia fines man for DDoS attacks
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Local pest rather than international conspiracy Estonia has fined a local man a year's salary for involvement in last April's sustained denial of service attacks against the Baltic nation's critical internet systems.â¦
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A policeman was fined 180 euros (230 dollars) by a court in eastern Finland for using foul language with would-be immigrants.
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Dutch authorities have issued their first fines for spam originating in the country.
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Server carried 40 GB per day, including suspected bomb threat A German operator of a Tor server used to anonymously route traffic over the net said he was arrested in a midnight raid on his residence that stemmed from an investigation into bomb threats said to have passed through an internet protocol address under his control.â¦
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Estonia is seeking help from Russia to  find the culprits behind a massive wave of attacks on the  country's Internet infrastructure, Prime Minister Andrus Ansip  said on Wednesday.
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Two men accused of aiding a Romanian man charged with hacking into the online ordering system of the world's largest computer equipment distributor pleaded not guilty to charges of mail fraud and conspiracy to ...
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AUGUST 24, 2004  - A Columbus, Ind., man was charged yesterday in federal court with hacking into the systems of his Gloucester, Mass.
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Web War I: A rogue botnet crashes Estonia's internet. But a savvy politico, international cybercops, a secret society and just plain serendipity fend off the attack. It can't happen here? Don't bet on it.
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Telecom regulators in the Netherlands have levied fines against three spammers in what OPTA, the Dutch telecom regulatory agency, is calling the first strike in an ongoing campaign against unsolicited e-mail.
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Cyber warfare's collateral damage You may or may not have picked up the news that Estonia came under cyber-attack in early May. Cyber attacks, usually consisting of multiple denial of service attacks, are pretty bloodless really.â¦
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A computer systems administrator was sentenced to 30 months in prison for trying to sabotage his companyâs servers out of fear he was about to lose his job, prosecutors said.
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"After all, for people here the Internet is almost as vital as running water; it is used routinely to vote, file their taxes, and, with their cellphones, to shop or pay for parking."  A timeline of "Attack on Estonia" is set out in the New York Times story today titled "War Fears Turn Digital After Data Siege in Estonia." For Estonians, the attack has been a fundamental threat, and for the ... via Smart Mobs
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Arbor Networks' Jose Nazario takes stock of the denial-of-service attack against the Baltic nation--and the wider implications.
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The removal of a Soviet soldierâs statue in Estonia prompted a series of cyber attacks that nearly crippled the countryâs government.
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The removal of a Soviet statue in Estonia prompted cyberassaults that nearly crippled the country.
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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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Hackers could bypass security warnings and download malicious content.