Civil servant jailed for 'Pythonesque' tube scam
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A senior civil servant was jailed for 18 months today after cheating London Underground's fare refund scheme
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By JAY FITZGERALD  A Pepperell man and former worker at Hanscom Air Force Base was sentenced yesterday to more than four years in prison for scamming Cisco Systems out of more than $4.7 million.
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A former tax inspector was given a six-year prison sentence on Monday for a one-million-pound blackmail plot against supermarket giant Tesco.
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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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A defense contractor has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for bribing a congressman with cash, meals, trips and other gifts in exchange for nearly $90 million in Pentagon work.
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A BESPECTACLED art thief was jailed for four-and-a-half years yesterday for stealing a part of Welsh history.
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Wedding back on as dad says 'sorry' for nude escapade The Worcestershire builder cuffed for jumping naked into a fountain in Bratislava during drunken stag night revels and subsequently slapped with a two-month jail sentence for his trouble has been released, the BBC reports.â¦
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The BBC was fined 50,000 pounds on Monday for a phone-in scandal in which a young studio guest posed as a phony competition winner on one of Britain&#39;s best loved children&#39;s shows.
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An Australian 419 fraudster who conned AU$5m from his victims was today jailed for four years on 10 counts of fraud and one of perverting the course of justice by the NSW District Court theage.com.au reports.
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Â· Conway barred for 10 days and told to repay Â£13,000Â· Support for fully audited expenses is growing
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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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The government has offered to pay out a minimum of Â£250,000 to the former civil servant at the centre of a computer fiasco that left tens of thousands of farmers without any EU grants last year, it was revealed to MPs last night.
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Actor Chris Langham is due to be sentenced for downloading indecent videos of children from the internet.
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EIGHTEEN civil servants have been sacked and 147 got official warnings after porn crashed the DVLA's computer network.   Colleagues complained they were driven mad by sex snap pop-ups on their screens.
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A Liverpool businessman has been given a suspended prison sentence for  faking degree certificates.
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A judge ordered a businessman jailed Tuesday in a case involving a corroded light pole, an injured street vendor and what the businessman calls a vindictive company.
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Man had been charged with one of the largest such scams in U.S. history.