Heavy sentence handed to cyber-blackmailers
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Stiff prison sentences handed down to three Russian men convicted of extorting money from overseas gambling sites may indicate that authorities there are changing their previously lenient outlook on such crimes.
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Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit.
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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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Â· UK mastermind jailed for internet conspiracy Â· Judge: I have no doubt large profits were made
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Two plead guilty to offenses under the Can-Spam Act after ISP finds they had sent out thousands of junk messages.
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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¦
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In the months leading up to this  week's sentencing, Frank Quattrone's friends, family and  colleagues sent hundreds of letters to a federal judge in  support of the former technology banker.
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R. James Nicholsonâs term was marked by the theft of a laptop computer that compromised the personal information of tens of millions of people.
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It figures...and just when it looked like some major email spammers were going to jail, too. So far, it&#39;s only in Russia, but it&#39;s nasty.
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Operation Cyberstorm nabs conspirators Four people convicted last year of scamming Microsoft by reselling discounted education versions of its software have been ordered to pay $5m in fines, return $20m to Microsoft and serve up to five years in prison.â¦
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An Australian man whose international email scam stripped A$5 million ($5.48 million) from his victims has been jailed in a continuing global war against Nigerian internet frauds.
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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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Those who are engaged in the profit-oriented production and dissemination of pornographic materials through the Internet, mobile communication terminals and &quot;phone-sex&quot; services in China are subject to punishment as severe as life imprisonment, according
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Pay up or you'll never see your data again Pond-dwelling scammers have developed a new cyber-extortion ruse.â¦
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A federal judge sentenced a teenager to  a year and half of prison on Friday for releasing a variant of  the Blaster worm that was used to attack more than 48,000  computers.
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Cyber criminals could soon be mounting sophisticated phishing attacks that are hard to detect warn experts.
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Owner of one of the nation's largest software piracy Web sites receives the longest sentence ever handed down for software piracy.