The definition of computers as specified in Dutch computer intrusion legislation has led to the acquittal of a defendant charged with breaking into a protected WiFi network.The controversial verdict [Google translation] was handed down earlier this month by a Hague court in the case of a Maerlant College graduate who... |
21 March 2011
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A Florida IT technician was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for repeatedly hacking into the computer network of her former employer to destroy data and lock out executives from critical systems.Patricia Marie Fowler, 30, of Palmetto, FL, was found guilty in September of several computer intrusions resulting ... |
10 December 2010
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A senior database administrator who hacked into the computer network of his former employer and damaged a customer database has been sentenced to one year in prison. He was also accused of downloading a file containing the personal identification information of 150,000 people.Steven Jinwoo Kim, 40, was fired from his... |
8 July 2010
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A 20-year-old was arrested and charged with computer intrusion in Austin yesterday for allegedly using stolen website credentials to disable as many as one hundred cars. The affected vehicles had a remote immobilization system installed and belonged to customers of his former employer, Texas Auto Center.At the end of... |
18 March 2010
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Two former employees of an engine parts distributor have been indicted for accessing the company's computer systems repeatedly without authorization after they quit. According to the prosecutors, the men used still active credentials to access sensitive information for almost two years.Scott R. Burgess, 45 of Ja... |
6 November 2009
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A former IT admin, who used to work for Fannie Mae at their Urbana Technology Center in Maryland, has been indicted by a grand jury for planting a malicious script to destroy data on all of the company's servers. The computer time bomb was designed to go off on the 31st of January, 2009 at 9:00 am. The Federal ... |
30 January 2009
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