Seattle based “Spam King” Goes Behind The Bars For Almost 4 Years

Robert Soloway, popularly known as “Spam King”, is sentenced to 47 months of prison, for distributing millions of junk mails to users, after an extraordinarily long sentence hearing of almost thirty six hours in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle

THU 24 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

SCO Ordered To Pay Novell USD2.5M For Unix Infringements

Judge Kimball asks SCO to pay $2.5 million to Novel for breach of fiduciary and other related charges

MON 21 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Card declined? Use a gun instead

I almost snorted into my coffee this morning after reading about a chap trying to buy an XBox in Richland Township in Pennsylvania, in the US, with his Visa debit card, only for the transaction to be declined.

FRI 18 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Apple To Take Legal Action Against Psystar For Making Mac Clones

Amidst its much hyped 3G iPhone launch celebration, computer maker Apple has sued Miami-based Psystar for manufacturing and selling unauthorized clones of Mac

THU 17 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

Survey Reports Rise in DVD Piracy in UK As One in Three Brits Indulge in Illegal Copying

According to a study conducted by the analyst firm Futuresource Consulting, as many as 38 percent of Brits have admitted the use of pirated DVDs in past six months

FRI 11 JULY 2008 |Featured in: News

"Computer Illiterate" Acquitted on Child Pornography Charges

A Massachusetts State worker who was charged of possessing child pornography has been finally exonerated of the charges

THU 19 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: News

Police Use Bluetooth Devices to Curb Crime

Lancashire police announced that they would be carrying Bluetooth devices with them on their patrols, which will enable them to send crime prevention messages to Bluetooth-enabled devices in the range of 100 meters

WED 28 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

FBI helps to nail New Zealand hacker

I'm indebted to the New Zealand Herald for its weekend report about an NZ hacker who has been jailed on five counts of blackmail, document and serious computer fraud..

TUE 27 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

Fast Payment Systems - open to fraud?

Further to my note yesterday about the bank's fast payment system (FPS) which started being phased in from today onwards, it occurred to me today that, if a payment leaves an account and is drawable on the destination account within two hours - and that service is available 24x7 - it's a recipe for utter disaster on the fraud front.

TUE 27 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News

RS Components ripped off for 18 grand

If you're an IT veteran like yours truly, it's likely you'll have ordered electronic goodies from RS Components in Nuneaton, but it seems that one of the mail order store's employees has been lifting stuff and flogging it on eBay.

FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: News