Lawbreakers & Cybercrime Articles

Palin email intruder indicted, faces up to five years in prison

Dan Kaplan October 08, 2008

A 20-year-old Tennessee man has been indicted on charges he accessed GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account without permission.
 

European hackers charged with DDoS attacks in the U.S.

Angela Moscaritolo October 07, 2008

Two European men have been charged with hacking U.S. retail websites and causing more than $400,000 in damage through a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks in 2003.
 

Stolen McCain party laptop had minimal data safeguards

Dan Kaplan October 06, 2008

A laptop containing "strategic" GOP data was stolen from the Kansas City field office for Sen. John McCain -- but the machine lacked encryption.
 

Researcher finds server with stolen FTP credentials

Dan Kaplan October 03, 2008

Researchers have tracked down a criminal server that contains the keys to tens of thousands of legitimate websites.
 

Record number of active viruses measured

Staff Report September 22, 2008

This summer's active virus count hit record numbers. August was the worst month for cybercrime, with threats increasing by 51 percent.
 

Cybercrime bill passes House, awaits Bush signature

Dan Kaplan September 19, 2008

The president's signature is the only thing standing in the way of a rare event: an IT-security related bill becoming law.
 

Palin's personal email account hacked, contents leaked

Dan Kaplan September 17, 2008

A hacker group broke into the email account for GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
 

Hackers prevent research on malicious code

Dan Raywood September 17, 2008

Cybercriminals are randomizing content served from malicious web pages so that they can prevent security researchers from doing proper analysis.
 

Anti-spam law struck down as unconstitutional

Chuck Miller September 12, 2008

In a unanimous ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down one of the country's first anti-spam laws.
 

U.S. intellectual property protection goes worldwide

Sue Marquette Poremba September 11, 2008

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Senate aimed at reducing intellectual property theft around the world.
 
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