A serial hacker with a long history of computer offences has pleaded guilty to computer intrusion and access device fraud charges, accepting a sentence of four years in jail in return for his plea.
Tag Archives: Cybercrime
SCAMwatch – 5 tips to keep your friends and family out of scammers’ clutches
It’s National Consumer Fraud Week in Australia, so the government’s SCAMwatch team has published 5 straight-talking anti-scammer tips. With Aussies alone taken for more than $90M last year, this is a battle we need to keep on fighting all around the globe…
22-year-old “organized crime” cybercrook convicted under racketeering law gets TWENTY years
David Ray Camez was just 17 when he embarked on life as a cyberfraudster, ending up in prison for seven years. But he was subsequently also convicted under racketeering laws, which provide for stiffer penalties. Now he’s been sentenced…
Monday review – the hot 21 stories of the week
It’s weekly roundup time! Here’s all the great stuff we’ve written in the past seven days. 
Cops get serious about cybercrime, and not before time
The world’s police forces are, it seems, starting to appreciate the scale and significance of the cybercrime problem. Let’s hope the process of international co-operation continues to pick up the steam we’ve been seeing in the last few weeks. 