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Source: Information Week - Posted by Anthony Pell
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LulzSec Hacker "Topiary" famously tweeted: "You cannot arrest an idea."
Perhaps not, but in the case of Topiary, revealed to be Jake Davis, now 20, you can be sentenced to 24 months in a "young offenders institute" for two counts of conspiracy to impair the operation of a computer, to be followed by a five-year serious crime prevention order that can restrict where he can travel and which jobs he'll be allowed to take. |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Pooja Shah
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Whitaker began by explaining his business—how he started out selling HGH and steroids but eventually sent customers vegetable oil and protein powder instead. He also said that the Google employees he worked with knew that he was in Mexico, selling mainly to Americans in the US—and that they knew his business was illegal. Further, he stated, they helped him tailor his advertising to increase the number of clicks it received. |
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Source: NY Times - Posted by Pooja Shah
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A new wave of cyberattacks is hitting American companies at a particularly vulnerable time for the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency charged with fending them off.
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Source: CSO Online - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The U.S. government is contributing to the Internet's underground economy by scooping up hacker tools to incorporate into offensive cyber weapons, a report from Reuters says. |
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Source: RT - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The United States government is investing tens of millions of dollars each year on offensive hacking operations in order to exploit vulnerabilities in the computers of its adversaries, Reuters reports. |
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Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The FBI and the CIA are being criticized for not keeping better track of Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the months before the Boston Marathon bombings. How could they have ignored such a dangerous person? How do we reform the intelligence community to ensure this kind of failure doesn't happen again? |
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Source: Bankok Post - Posted by Alex
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An Algerian national implicated in the cybercrime consortium behind the SpyEye hacking software has appeared in court after a three-year manhunt that ended with his arrest in Bangkok.
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Alex
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A Spanish Linux software group has filed a complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission over its controversial implementation of UEFI Secure Boot for Windows 8 hardware.
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Source: Tech Week EU - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Illinois, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database.
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Source: Sydney Morning Herald - Posted by Anthony Pell
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A hacker who pleaded guilty to taking part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment has been sentenced to a year in prison, followed by home detention, US federal prosecutors said.
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