Security News

Russian Hacker Living in U.S. Sentenced to Prison (Security Week)
2017-07-11 08:38

A Russian-born U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 110 months in prison for running a sophisticated cybercrime operation that involved botnets, stolen financial data and money laundering. Alexander...

Illegal Bitcoin exchange operator gets 66-month prison sentence (Help Net Security)
2017-06-28 19:16

Anthony Murgio, the operator of the Coin.mx Bitcoin exchange, has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for processing over $10 million in illegal Bitcoin transactions. He has also been sentenced...

Inmates Secretly Build and Network Computers while in Prison (Schneier on Security)
2017-05-30 17:47

This is kind of amazing: Inmates at a medium-security Ohio prison secretly assembled two functioning computers, hid them in the ceiling, and connected them to the Marion Correctional Institution's...

Nigerians Get Lengthy Prison Terms for 'Romance Scams' (InfoRiskToday)
2017-05-26 18:48

Nigerians Sentenced to Prison in U.S. Over Massive Fraud Scheme (SecurityWeek)
2017-05-26 11:33

Three Nigerians sentenced to 235 years in prison for online scamming (The Register)
2017-05-25 22:33

Former Expedia IT support worker gets prison time for hacking execs’ emails, insider trading (Help Net Security)
2017-04-26 14:41

A IT support technician formerly employed at Expedia offices in San Francisco was sentenced to 15 months in prison for securities fraud, plus three years supervised release. 28-year-old San...

Expedia IT bod gets all-expenses-paid trip to prison after hacking execs' emails for profit (The Register)
2017-04-25 22:32

Russian Hacker Gets 27-Year Prison Sentence (SecurityWeek)
2017-04-24 16:48

Russian carding industry pioneer sentenced to 27 years in prison (Help Net Security)
2017-04-24 13:07

32-year-old Roman Valeryevich Seleznev, aka Track2, has been handed the longest US hacking sentence to date: 27 years in prison. He was convicted in August 2016, of 38 counts (intentional damage...