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Lawyers for Gary McKinnon, the hacker who broke into Nasa computers, have appealed to the Home Secretary in a bid to stop him being jailed in the US. A Nigerian man has been arrested over an Internet-based lonely-hearts scam, which stripped a 45-year-old Queensland man of thousands of dollars. Gary McKinnon, the alleged NASA hacker, has failed in his last-ditch appeal to the European Court of Human Rights to have his extradition to the United States quashed. The mayor of San Francisco has intervened in the case of the city’s FiberWAN network being taken over by a rogue administrator. Organisations that hold personal data should be made liable for fraudulent transactions, say BT security experts. Gary McKinnon has vowed to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights, after his appeal against extradition was rejected. Google and LinkedIn criticised for not protecting individuals' data. A California high school student could spend nearly four decades in prison for hacking into his school's computer system.. Global security experts gathered in Malaysia last month to help ramp up the world’s defenses against cyber-terrorism. Self-styled 'King of Spam' Scott Richter has been ordered to pay US$6m in legal fees and damages for spamming MySpace subscribers in August 2006.
Gary McKinnon, the Briton who is facing extradition to the US for hacking into NASA's computers, is to appeal the deportation on Monday. The social networking site has been hit by a legal complaint that claims it has failed to gain users' permission to distribute their information. Spanish authorities charged a team of young hackers with infiltrating more than 20,000 web pages, including one belonging to NASA. A coalition of technology organisations and vendors has asked a federal appeals court to reject a lawsuit that adware maker Zango has continued to pursue against Kaspersky Lab, accusing the anti-virus firm of unfairly blocking user access to its services. A 36-year-old Sydney man has been arrested by Australian Federal Police for his alleged involvement in an international music piracy ring. The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order that settles charges an online clothing retailer failed to properly secure its customers' personal information. We shall fight them on the servers, we shall fight them in the browser, we
shall never reboot. A Seattle man has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after pleading guilty last year to using file-sharing programs to perpetrate identity theft. Robert Alan Soloway, the so-called "spam king," pleaded guilty on Friday after prosecutors charged him with using botnets to deliver millions of unwanted junk mail messages to victims across the world. Quebec police have arrested 17 people on charges stemming from alleged botnet-related activities that police said caused an estimated US$44.3 million in damages worldwide.