Tag Archive for: jailed

Derp! DDoS attacker who brought down EA, Sony, and Steam jailed for 27 months

A 23-year-old man has plenty of time to mull over whether it’s funny to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks against online video gaming services, after he was sentenced to prison this week.

Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

Graham Cluley

Ex-Equifax CIO, who knew about huge data breach, jailed for insider trading

So, just what was Equifax doing during those 40 days between discovering it had been hacked and sharing the bad news with the world?

Well, now we know. Or at least we know what Jun Ying, the CIO of Equifax US Information Solutions, was doing.

Graham Cluley

Former Equifax executive jailed for insider trading following 2017 data breach – SiliconANGLE News

  1. Former Equifax executive jailed for insider trading following 2017 data breach  SiliconANGLE News
  2. Former Equifax executive sent behind bars for insider trades, profiting on data breach  ZDNet
  3. Ex-Equifax CIO, who knew about huge data breach, jailed for insider trading  Graham Cluley Security News
  4. Former Equifax exec headed to jail over data breach  Mortgage Professional America
  5. An Equifax executive is going to jail, but not for letting your data get stolen  Mic
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High-rolling hacker jailed after launching malware attacks via websites – Security Boulevard

High-rolling hacker jailed after launching malware attacks via websites  Security Boulevard

A British man has been jailed for over six years after exploiting ad networks on pornographic websites to spread malware onto innocent users’ computers.

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