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This story has been updated throughout with further information from the sentencing. On Wednesday, the former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced to two years in prison for computer hacking. Keys, who once worked for Tribune Company-owned Sacramento television station Fox 40, left that job in 2010 and went on to copy and paste…
cache hit 320:single/related:72484550164ca1b60a0bf11636f964fd empty Matthew Keys Matthew Keys, a journalist, was found guilty on Wednesday of three counts of criminal hacking. He faces up to 25 years in prison, but officials are expected to seek less than five years. When asked via a Twitter direct message if he would appeal, he told Ars: “Yes,” adding,…
View this image › Matthew Keys (L) leaves the federal courthouse after being arraigned in April 2013. Max Whittaker / Getty Images ID: 8435065 Matthew Keys, a journalist who was convicted last year of computer hacking was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by another two years of supervised release today in a federal…
Illustrations: Jim Cooke/Gawker One afternoon in early January, just outside the small, north Texas town of Pottsboro, Vincent Smith shot and killed his friend, Charles Carter, who was drunk. The two were members of the American patriot movement, and they had been organizing, through Facebook, a march of gun rights evangelists on Washington. According to…
Image: Getty I was kind of tired of the FBI vs. Apple story, but now it has a secret collective of morally ambiguous hackers, and I’m into it again. According to a report from the Washington Post, the Federal Bureau of Investigation paid a group of hackers a one-time fee to pinpoint a zero-day security…
(Twitter) There are literal textbooks for online harassment, the original dating back to 1999. These “ruin-life” guides include tactics from doxing and SWATing to placing endangering or annoying ads in online classifieds. As popular as those techniques remain, however, online harassers have learned that they can cause far more damage with a slightly less flashy…
Driving while black in California can be expensive, especially if you are poor. According to a report by Back On the Road California, a consortium of social justice and legal groups, black drivers in the state are more likely to have their licenses suspended for failure to appear in court or failing to pay a…
Mossack Fonseca Breach – WordPress Revolution Slider Plugin Possible Cause This entry was posted in General Security, WordPress Security on April 7, 2016 by mark 44 Replies Mossack Fonseca (MF), the Panamanian law firm at the center of the so called Panama Papers Breach may have been breached via a vulnerable version of Revolution Slider. The…
As promised, Gawker Media filed its appeal against the Hulk Hogan verdict Monday afternoon. Its lawyers are asking for a new trial or the jury’s decision to award Hogan (or Terry Bollea, depending on which personality he is presenting at the time — more on that later!) $140.1 million to be significantly reduced, or for a judge…
To the non-legal mind, Kesha’s court case is eminently reasonable. She would like to be unshackled from a decade-old contract tying her to producer and collaborator Lukasz Gottwald (aka “Dr Luke”), a man she says has drugged, raped and psychologically abused her from the time she was 18. Specifically, she would like to be freed…