By Andrew Jacobs Cyberattack on U.S. and South Korean Governments Stymies Investigators Law enforcement officials are still investigating the cyberattacks that hobbled some U.S. and South Korean government websites for five days beginning July 4, the New York Times reports. The distributed denial of service attack caused 50,000 to 65,000 infected computers to jam websites of government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission and the Secret Service with an extraordinary amount of traffic. Although independent and government investigations have ... Read More...
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Lori Drew Convicted on Three Misdemeanor Counts of Violating MySpace Terms of Service in “Cyberbullying” Case By Brian Kozlowski – Edited By Stephanie Weiner United States v. Drew, 08-CR-582 A federal jury convicted Lori Drew on November 26th on three of four misdemeanor counts of unauthorized computer access under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (”CFAA”), 18 U.S.C. § 1030, for violating the MySpace terms of service. Drew was acquitted of three felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to ... Read More...
Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted on Federal Charges by Tennessee Grand Jury By Andrew Ungberg –- Edited by Jon Choate United States v. Kernell E.D. Tenn., October 7, 2008, No. 3:08-CR-142 Indictment On October 7, 2008 a Tennessee grand jury charged David C. Kernell with violating 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (part of the Stored Communications Act) and 18 U.S.C § 1030(a)(2) (a subsection of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) for allegedly accessing the Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska Governor Sarah ... Read More...
D. Mass: MIT Students’ Security Presentation Merits Temporary Restraining Order By Jon Choate – Edited by Dan Ray Mass. Bay Transp. Auth. v. Anderson D. Mass., August 9th, 2008, No. 08-11364-GAO Temporary Restraining Order (Hosted by EFF) On August 9th, Judge Woodlock of the U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts granted the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (“MBTA”) a temporary restraining order against Zack Anderson, RJ Ryan, and Alessandro Chiesa, undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”). The order ... Read More...
