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RSS sentencingTrojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News He failed to appear at Southwark Crown Court on Friday for sentencing for two offences contrary to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Four men have been sentenced to prison time for being part of a gang that stole just... [17 Nov 2009]
Credit card hacker pleads guilty to fraud worth millions
News Sentencing is scheduled for 8 December. A 28-year-old Miami man who made millions breaking into computer networks and stealing credit card numbers pleaded guilty on Friday and agreed to forfeit more than $2.7m in... [14 Sep 2009]
HP TRIM Software Has Major Impact on Record Management at Ministry of Justice
White Paper The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is responsible for the courts, prisons, probation, criminal law and sentencing in England and Wales. Due to changes in legislation the MoJ decided that it needed an Electronic Document and... [22 Jun 2009]
Teen Twitter worm writer lands job in IT
News Asked earlier in the week about the prosecution scenario for Mooney, Jennifer Granick, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said in an email: "If he's 17, he will not be federally prosecuted and the... [20 Apr 2009]
Prisoner database hit by delays, budget blowout
News Many benefits of the programme are capable of being realised but the key aim of creating a single database of offenders directly accessible by prison, probation and third party intervention providers responsible for offenders - from... [12 Mar 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 06.02.09
Round-Up There are often calls for tougher sentencing and more police investigations to deal with virus writing and hacking. It only took a light dusting of snow to bring the south of England to a slippery, sliding halt earlier... [06 Feb 2009]
e-Crime: the Vladimir Levin Episode
White Paper The sentencing of Vladimir Levin on 24 February 1998 brought to a conclusion the most high profile case of cyber crime to date. The saga - which almost resembles a Hollywood blockbuster - began in July 1994 when... [28 Feb 2008]
Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police
News This allows first hearings, and in some cases sentencing, to be heard without the need to produce a prisoner at court - cutting the average time between charging a suspect and a first hearing for bail cases from... [08 Feb 2008]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News He is awaiting sentencing on those charges. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal internet spam operations, including two that hijacked computers to send sexually explicit spam. [15 Sep 2006]
ID thieves face porridge threat
News The Department for Constitutional Affairs (DCA) will first undertake a public consultation on the new sentencing proposals. The government is proposing to introduce tough new penalties that could see identity thieves... [25 Jul 2006]
Kumar admits guilt in CA fraud scandal
News A sentencing is scheduled for 12 September, 2006. Sanjay Kumar, the former chief executive of CA, pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of financial fraud, part of a bookkeeping scandal that tarred the software company's... [25 Apr 2006]
Home Office loans laptops to prisoners
News The Home Office claims the move will help prisoners and people awaiting sentencing to understand the legal process and prepare their case, especially if it is deemed 'complex'. Prisoners are to be given laptops to... [08 Mar 2006]
Offender risk assessment IT system two years late
News But the project has been beset by delays and silicon.com reported last February that the project was running behind schedule because of the work needed to enable the IT systems to support the sentencing provisions of the... [30 Jan 2006]
Ex-software CEO guilty of stealing trade secrets
News Sentencing is scheduled for next spring. Sentencing for O'Neil and the other two defendants, Robert McKimmey, former CTO of Business Engine Software, and William McMenamin, its former sales chief, is... [12 Dec 2005]
P2P pirates face more time in the slammer
News The US Sentencing Commission on Wednesday approved an emergency set of rules that would boost prison sentences by roughly 40 per cent for people convicted of peer-to-peer infringement of copyright works "being prepared... [21 Oct 2005]
