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12 year jail sentence for man who hacked Los Angeles Superior Court to send two million phishing emails

A Texas man has been sentenced to over 12 years in prison after being found guilty of hacking into the computer system of the Los Angeles Superior Court, and then using it to send two million phishing emails.

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

Graham Cluley

She recorded herself pulling up YouTube on a Tarrant County computer. Now she’s in jail

accused of a computer security breach. Carolyn Rodriguez was conducting what’s known as a First Amendment audit. The audits, done by activists, test constitutional rights often by photographing or …
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New Bill From Elizabeth Warren Proposes Potential Jail Time for CEOs Over Massive Consumer Data Breaches – Slate

New Bill From Elizabeth Warren Proposes Potential Jail Time for CEOs Over Massive Consumer Data Breaches  Slate

On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a new bill that—among other ways of expanding criminal liability for what she describes as “any corporate …

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Three years in jail for teenager who spammed out school bomb threats

Three years in jail for teenager who spammed out school bomb threats

British teenager George Duke-Cohan has been jailed for three years for making hoax bomb threats that closed hundreds of schools up and down the UK.

Graham Cluley