A Lebanese Facebook group began as a collection of juvenile jokes revolving around a fellow student. After complaining to university authorities and being told that the matter was not a university concern, the woman took... More...
A low-rent recidivist con man who targeted eBay customers was jailed for two years on Tuesday. Phillip Shortman, 20, from Cwmbran near Newport in south Wales, was sent to a young offenders' institution following a... More...
US authorities have sentenced a man to seven years in prison for buying stolen identities from cyber-criminals in other countries. Jacob Vincent Green-Bressler was convicted of soliciting information including credit and debit card account numbers,... More...
According to Reporters Without Borders, Chen Shuqing, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and advocate of democratic reforms, has been sentenced to four years in jail after he was convicted of "inciting the government's... More...
36-year old Courtney Smith from Anderson, Indiana, has been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Barker to 27 months in prison for selling more than $700,000 worth of counterfeit computer software on eBay.com. Smith... More...
An Egyptian court has sentenced blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman to four years' prison for insulting Islam and the president. The trial, which took place in Soliman's native city of Alexandria, is the first time a... More...
Two Moroccan men have been jailed for releasing the Zotob computer worm, which wreaked havoc on an estimated 250,000 Windows PCs last year. Farid Essebar, 19, of Morocco was sentenced to two years in prison... More...
An American who was part of a multi-million pound ID theft scam in the UK was jailed yesterday for six years. Douglas Havard, age 24, was sentenced on Monday at Leeds Crown Court after he... More...
An Italian convicted of running a porn dialler scam has been locked up on charges of fraud and virus distribution. The 39-year-old, who hasn't been named, was also fined €3000 by a court in Milan.... More...
A hoaxer who e-mailed the families of people caught up in the Asian tsunami telling them their relatives were dead has been jailed for six months. Christoper Pierson, 40, from Lincolnshire, was arrested on New... More...
An American software pirate has been jailed for 18 months after running a website offering illegal copies of a range of business software. Kishan Singh, from Lanham in Maryland, had earlier pleaded guilty to a... More...
Counterfeiter enjoyed turnover of £4,500 a month A 23-year-old trainee accountant has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and fined £15,000 for selling thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit software. Lewisham-based... More...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 49-year-old Nevada man has been sentenced to two years in prison for the large-scale trafficking in counterfeit Microsoft MSFT.O software over the Internet, federal prosecutors said on Friday. ... More...