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Top Spammer Sentenced to Nearly Four Years PCWorld: "The "spam king" was sentenced on Tuesday to 47 months in prison, with a ruling that the court hopes sends a message to other online criminals. Robert Soloway, the man known as the spam king for the massive volume of spam he sent out, pleaded guilty to fraud, spamming and tax evasion Home > Rss Directory > Technology > LinuxToday |
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Brothers sentenced for software piracy Two brothers were sentenced Friday to multiyear prison terms for selling what the U.S. Department of Justice called "massive" amounts of pirated software online, the DOJ announced.Maurice A. Robberson, 48, was s Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spammer gets 30 months for inundating AOL A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month period.Adam Vitale was also ordered to pay AOL $180,000 in restitution, according to his at Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Padilla Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in Prison - New York Times WHDH-TVPadilla Sentenced to More Than 17 Years in PrisonNew York Times - 5 hours agoBy KIRK SEMPLE MIAMI - Jose Padilla, the Brooklyn-born convert to Islam who was once accused by the government of plotting to detonate a “dirty bomb†in the United States, w Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Abramoff Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison - New York Times ABC NewsAbramoff Sentenced to 4 Years in PrisonNew York Times- 31 minutes agoBy NEIL A. LEWIS WASHINGTON - Jack Abramoff, the one-time flamboyant lobbyist who amassed a fortune by showering officials, especially members of Congress and their aides, with gifts, was sen Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Top 10: It's a crime-filled week in IT land In an unusual week for IT news, headlines were dominated by alleged crime, actual crime and crime that could be in the offing.Technical details of the dreaded DNS flaw were inadvertently released, leading to pub Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Qaeda recruit Padilla sentenced to 17 years MIAMI (Reuters) - Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism. Home > Rss Directory > General > Reuters |
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Qaeda recruit Padilla sentenced to 17 years
(Reuters) Reuters - Jose Padilla, a Chicago gang member once accused by the Bush administration of plotting a radioactive bomb attack, was sentenced by a U.S. court on Tuesday to 17 years and four months in prison for supporting terrorism. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Top botnets control 1M hijacked computers Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax, and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said Wednesday as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top 10 social networking annoyances The same question people used to ask about PCs can be asked of social networks: Were our lives easier or harder, better or worse, simpler or more complex, before they came around? The answer is yes. For some folks, social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Fugitive spammer in murder-suicide Three dead as teenage girl escapes carnage Fugitive spammer Eddie Davidson shot his wife and infant daughter dead on Thursday before turning the gun on himself - four days after going AWOL from a minimum security prison.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Bobby Cutts Jr. Sentenced to 57 Years After Jury Votes to Spare ... - ABC News ABC NewsBobby Cutts Jr. Sentenced to 57 Years After Jury Votes to Spare ...ABC News - 5 hours agoBobby Cutts Jr. was convicted of killing pregnant lover Jessie Davis and her unborn child. (AP Photos) A former Ohio police officer was sentenced to at least 57 year Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Chinese-born engineer sentenced for helping export US military ... - CNN International BBC NewsChinese-born engineer sentenced for helping export US military ...CNN International - 1 hour ago(CNN) -- A Chinese-born engineer who conspired to export US military technology to China was sentenced Monday to 24 years and 4 months in federal prison.E Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Top 10: Yang sums it up, iPhone goes 3G Yahoo CEO and cofounder Jerry Yang probably spoke for more people than he could possibly imagine when he said, "Clearly it is time to move on," at a news conference after the company announced talks with Microsoft have ended and there's no acquisition deal in the maki Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Abramoff gets 4 years prison in corruption scandal
(AP) AP - Jack Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had shattered the public's confidence in government. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Lobbyist Abramoff gets 4 more years in prison
(Reuters) Reuters - Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced on Thursday to serve four more years in prison in a corruption scandal that rocked Washington's power elite and helped Republicans lose control of Congress. Home > Rss Directory > General > Yahoo News |
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Colombian man sentenced for computer fraud A Colombian man who used keylogging software in a lucrative identity theft scheme has been sentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of US$347,000.Mario Simbaqueba Bonilla, 40, pleaded gu Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Top OLPC executive resigns after restructuring Drastic internal restructuring at the One Laptop Per Child Project has led to the resignation of one of the nonprofit's top executives from the effort.Walter Bender, the former president of software and content Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Tech's all-time top 25 flops Imagine how different the tech industry might have been had Gary Kildall accepted IBM's offer, back in 1980, to license his computer operating system for a top-secret project. CP/M would have been the OS that shipped with the original IBM PC, and the world might never Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Leading Class-Action Lawyer Is Sentenced to Two Years in Kickback Scheme William S. Lerach was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to forfeit $7.75 million for concealing illegal payments to a plaintiff in class-action lawsuits. Home > Rss Directory > Business > NY Time |