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Ex-Apple engineer sentenced to prison for stealing Apple Car trade secrets

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 12:56:01 +0000

In the case of United States v. Xiaolang Zhang which is ongoing since 2018, the California District Court has sentenced Zhang for imprisonment for stealing numerous documents about the Apple Car. Read more...

Four People jailed in Lebanon for Facebook comments

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:53:54 +0000

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... Read more...

Serial eBay fraudster jailed for two years

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:23:17 +0000

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... Read more...

US identity fraudster jailed for seven years

Steven Parker — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:41:53 +0000

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,... Read more...

Chinese cyber-dissident jailed for 4 years

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:15:49 +0000

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... Read more...

U.S. man gets jailed for selling pirated software

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:22:04 +0000

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... Read more...

Egypt Blogger jailed for 'Insult'

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:26:10 +0000

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... Read more...

Zotob authors jailed

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:30:58 +0000

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... Read more...

Phishing duo to be jailed

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:55:39 +0000

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... Read more...

Porn Dialler Scammer Jailed

Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:51:05 +0000

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.... Read more...

Tsunami E-mail Hoaxer Jailed

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:32:20 +0000

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... Read more...

Software Pirate Jailed

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:16:15 +0000

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... Read more...

Software pirate jailed

Darren Bolton — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 10:24:10 +0000

Counterfeiter enjoyed turnover of Â£4,500 a month A 23-year-old trainee accountant has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and fined Â£15,000 for selling thousands of pounds worth of counterfeit software. Lewisham-based... Read more...

Man Jailed for Software Scheme Over Internet

Sun, 28 Oct 2001 15:19:33 +0000

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. ... Read more...