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Don't be [Gabriel Meija], the criminal pictured above. He stole [Jose Caceres]' laptop, but didn't realize that [Caceres] had installed a remote access program to track the activity on the laptop. Although the first few days were frustrating, as [Meija] didn't seem to be using the laptop for anything but porn, [Caceres]' luck turned when he noticed that an address was being typed in. [Caceres] … [Read more...]
[Brian Salcedo] made headlines a few years ago as a hacker who attempted to break into Lowe's corporate network. He is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence, one of the longest sentences for a computer hacking offense. Recent events surrounding a different hacking case have revealed that the buyer he worked for, [Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez], was a Secret Service informant. [Salcedo] claims … [Read more...]
[Jeffrey Robert Weinberg] has been sentenced to 2 years in state prison for a single act of computer intrusion. He had already served time in federal prison for hacking into Lexis-Nexis. Weinberg was caught through his cyberstalking - he went after an Internet celebrity. [Amor Hilton] was a MySpace user with a popular show on Stickam. Hilton found herself locked out of her MySpace account, and her … [Read more...]
P2P networks have long been a legal gray area, used for various spam schemes, illegal filesharing, and lots and lots of adware. Last year, though, the first botnet created by a worm distributed via P2P software surfaced, the work of 19-year-old [Jason Michael Milmont] of Cheyenne, Wyoming, who distributed his Nugache Worm by offering free downloads of the P2P app Limewire with the worm embedded. … [Read more...]
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