Autistic hacker Gary McKinnon will get another chance to beat his US extradition order next week when the UK Parliament’s Home Affairs Select Committee considers his plight again. The Committee will consider the case against the 2003 Extradition Act under which the US placed an order for McKinnon’s arrest after he was caught hacking into [...]

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Romanian authorities have arrested 50 individuals accused of using off-the-shelf software to monitor cellphone communications of their spouses, competitors, and others, according to news reports. The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism also arrested Dan Nicolae Oproiu, a 30-year-old IT specialist who allegedly sold the spyware for as much as $580 over the [...]

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US regulators have frozen the assets of a Russian who they believe made a killing on the stock exchange by hacking servers. According to Wired, a federal judge in New York granted a petition from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and froze the assets of Broco Investments. Broco is a one man outfit [...]

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Russian police have arrested the hacker who last month projected some adult entertainment on an enormous video screen in Moscow, giving locals around two minutes unexpurgated coverage of “a white male and a black female having sex”. According to Pravda, the grumble flick appeared at 11pm on 14 January on an giant display on the [...]

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A skilled San Francisco computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also ordered to pay $27.5 million in restitution, and [...]

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