Head of phishing ring gets 12 years in prison for scamming 38K victims – Digitaltrends.com
Have you ever received an email pretending to be a bank or credit card company? A California man received a sizable prison sentence today for sending those emails and bilking victims out of their money. That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today …
Head of phishing ring gets 12 years in prison for scamming 38K victims – YAHOO!
That Tien Truong Nguyen, age 34, was sentenced today for his role in designing websites to mock financial institutions and using those sites to scam over 38,000 victims. He worked with Romanian scammers to help drive people to the sites through email …
Head of U.S. cyber agency resigns suddenly – msnbc.com
The head of a U.S. agency that helps respond to cyber attacks resigned suddenly after several high-profile attacks on government computer systems but the Department of Homeland Security declined Monday to comment on the reason. Randy Vickers resigned as …
Steve Jobs Gets His Head Shaved And Other Youthful Stories [Early Playboy Interview] (Leander Kahney/Cult of Mac)
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac:Steve Jobs Gets His Head Shaved And Other Youthful Stories [Early Playboy Interview] — I’ve read a lot of Steve Jobs interviews but until now I’d not seen this 1985 interview from Playboy. — It catches Steve Jobs at age 29, one year after the Macintosh was launched.
Computer security head suspended over e-mail spying – Columbus Dispatch
The head of computer systems security for the Ohio Department of Public Safety was suspended today amid the fallout from an e-mail spying scheme. David A. Brown, 46, was placed on paid administrative leave from his $94,284-a-year job as the department …
Google Research head dubs holy PageRank ‘over-hyped’ (Cade Metz/The Register)
Cade Metz / The Register:Google Research head dubs holy PageRank ‘over-hyped’ — Norvig mum on ‘Caffeine’ search shot — Google research head Peter Norvig says that the search giant’s hallowed PageRank link analysis algorithm is overrated. And always has been. — “One thing that I think is still over-hyped is PageRank …
