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IT Worker Jailed for Ruining Former Employers Network
I daresay that many of you reading this have probably had a bad experience with a former employer. I would also presume that while you may have had a few choice words as you walked (or were escorted) out the door, your actions did not go as far as anything…
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Porn Pirating Lawyer Jailed For Blackmailing Downloaders
With the UK recently looking to implement new online pornography laws (more on that via the link here) most peoples proposed bypass to the problem seemed to be hitting the torrenting websites. Now, as you might expect, care needs to be taken in such areas of the internet. There is,…
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Hacker Sentenced To Over Two Years in Jail for DDoS Attacks
Hacker Given 27 Months In Prison Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on the prison system, but I imagine that as you enter your cell and your big burly cellmate asks you gruffly ‘what are you in for?’ responding with ‘hacking servers’ isn’t going to win you much…
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Game ‘Boosting’ in South Korea Could Carry A Jail Sentence
New Gaming Laws Introduced in South Korea While we have perhaps not gotten to the stage yet of applying any actual laws to gaming in the West, it is something that parts of Asia take very seriously. For example, last year a gamer was sent to prison in South Korea…
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UK Porn Blackmailer Jailed For Over 6 Years
Porn Blackmailer Jailed While the internet is a fantastic resource for education, learning, entertainment and leisure, there is also another *ahem* activity that also makes it a very popular resource to many. We are, of course, talking about ‘adult‘ content. In a report via SkyNews, however, where there is high…
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Man Guilty Of Swatting Death Sentenced To 20 Years
Swatting Death Man Given 20-Year Sentence Over the last few years, a rather pervasive trend hit the internet. More prevalent in the US, if there was someone online who disgrunted you and you knew their address, it wasn’t uncommon to pull a ‘prank’ known as ‘swatting’. This would essentially revolve…
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UK Drone Owners May Face Tests And Flight Restrictions
UK Drone Owners May Face Tests and Tighter Restrictions In New Government Proposals Over the last 5 years, with drone technology getting better (and in some instances cheaper) ownership has soared. The ability to have your own flying craft is something many of us have always dreamed of. Particularly one…
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Hacker Jailed For 7 Years For Breaking Into Prison Security
Hacker Jailed for 7 Years for Trying to Reduce A Friends Sentence We all know that hackers accept certain risks when they decide to engage in illegal activity online. While most ‘hacking’ is the someone mundane types of DDOS attacking, some decide that they might try something a little more…
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Man Sentenced To 15 Months For Selling Windows Restore CD’s
15 Months For Re-Selling Old Windows Recovery Disks If you are anything like me, you probably have at least 3 or 4 Windows Recovery or installation disks around. When you own several PC‘s you do tend to accumulate them. At present, I have around 3 XP’s, a Vista and a…
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Botched YouTube Stunt Gets Woman Jailed For Manslaughter
YouTube Stunt Goes Wrong Resulting in Death and Prison sentence Last summer you may have heard of a YouTube stunt that went very wrong indeed. You probably heard of several actually including an idiot who stuck a microwave to his head. That being said, a young couple in search of…
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Blogger Jailed After Hotel Stunt Goes Wrong
Blogger Goes To Jail Sometimes it seems clear that in the pursuit of fame and fortune, some internet personalities, bloggers, or commentators take things way too far. Logan Paul is certainly one in recent months who has felt the ire of a video gone wrong. One girl in China, however, pulled…
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Hack & Aimbot Creators in South Korea Could Face 5-Years in Jail
If you’re a PC gamer, then you’re more than likely familiar with the scourge of aimbots and hackers that have been a part of countless competitive multiplayer games. However, now it looks like South Korea is taking a very aggressive stance against the people who create software like this, which…
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Copyright Troll Receives Jail Time Following Attack on Uber Driver
Robert Croucher is mostly known for being the owner of the copyright troll company Hatton & Berkeley which launched a large offensive against alleged illegal file downloaders in the UK last fall, but now he’ll also be known as a jailbird after assaulting an Uber driver during a night out in…
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First Quadcopter Pilot Jailed for Smuggling Drugs into Prison
When it comes to drones, they keep popping up in the news for all kinds of reasons. From people attaching chainsaws and guns to the remote controlled vehicles to the devices being used to photograph dangerous areas, albeit to the hindrance of emergency services during forest fires. Now a man in…
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Hacker Claims He Controlled The Outcome Of Mexico’s Election
We hear stories and watch movies about hackers, from the news that large companies like TalkTalk have their information accessed to hacking lottery terminals, we’ve heard it all. That was until a hacker who’s currently in jail has come forward saying he was even responsible for rigging the outcome of Mexico’s…
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