Four engineers from Taiwan that worked for Intel's OEM makers have been arrested for allegedly trying to sell sample engineering CPUs on eBay, The suspects could face up to five years in jail. More...
Whilst LulzSec may now have disbanded, the police are still investigating their actions and have now released a statement announcing they have arrested a prominent LulzSec member under the name of Topiary. Topiary was named as... More...
News has just broken claiming that the leader and mastermind of infamous hacking group LulzSec has been arrested in Wickford, Essex. The suspect in question is a 19-year-old male who was caught as a result... More...
A few days ago, Neowin reported that Dutch authorities had arrested a 16 year old in connection to the distributed denial of service attacks that took place on behalf of Wikileaks as part of Operation:... More...
MAY 21--Meet Alex Phillips. The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images,... More...
In a recent blog posting, a German operator of a Tor anonymous proxy server revealed that he was arrested by German police officers at the end of July. Although he was released shortly afterwards, information... More...
Park Kwang-kee, managing director of Thai Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a Samsung subsidiary in Thailand, and Kim Chung-jun, the company's general manager, were arrested in Bangkok and turned over to the police's economic and cyber... More...
A 27-year-old man described as one of the world's most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail. Robert... More...
Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else's network without authorization; he is being prosecuted for using a cafe's free WiFi from his car. The cafe's WiFi network was reserved... More...
Johannes Feldmayer, a top-ranking official at Siemens, was arrested in Germany due to an investigation into payments Siemens made to the head of the AUB labour organization. Siemens said the arrest of the head of... More...
Two unnamed South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages between September and December last year in violation of the country's commerce laws. The two men,... More...
Despite denying any wrongdoing the head of Livedoor, Takafumi Horie, has been arrested along with three other colleagues in Japan. The Japanese company has recently caused havoc... More...
An American man has been arrested after allegedly trying to arrange a mass online suicide pact for Valentine's Day on Monday. Gerald Krien, 26, was caught after one woman alerted authorities after hearing one of... More...
A 20-year old man was arrested in England on September 3rd for the alleged theft of proprietary source code used by Cisco Systems. No formal charges have been brought against the man (who's identity has... More...
Three moviegoers were caught recording the recently released disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow" with handheld video cameras in U.S. and Canadian theaters, the Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday. Two of the purported... More...
An 18-year-old high school student has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of creating the Sasser internet worm, police say. The worm spread through an estimated 18 million computers across the world last week, continually... More...
A California man has been charged with extortion, after allegedly making demands for $100,000 from search giant Google. According to court papers, he claimed that if Google did not pay, he would... More...
A Wollongong man is to appear in court next months after being arrested at the Australian end of an international child internet porn operation. A spokeswoman for the Australian Federal Police said warrants... More...
An 18-year-old Minnesota resident was arrested and charged with releasing a variant of the MSBlaster worm, U.S. officials announced Friday. Jeffrey Lee Parson, who used the nickname "teekid," made his first court appearance in St.... More...
A former Microsoft Corp employee was arrested on Monday for allegedly ordering more than $17 million of software via an internal purchasing system and then selling it to keep the proceeds for himself. Richard... More...
Japanese police arrest suspect for distributing illegal software. The ACCS (Association of Copyright for Computer Software) revealed today that for the first time this year it has had an individual arrested for... More...
Two men were arrested in England and one in the U.S. Thursday on suspicion of being part of a hacking group that created a relatively unknown Internet worm, officials said. The two... More...
Seriously, where is the world heading towards? This is quite sickening to me, and i'm sure it'll give you something to talk about. Could it get anymore insane? --Ed. Two men who... More...
Seen at Warp2search. Here's a strange one... we found an Advertisement at BestBuy.com that proclaimed "VisionTek GeForce4 Ti4600 for Special Pre-Order Price of $129.00..the savings is a $200.00 Value". Normally a "typo" or mistake would... More...