Hacker of celebrities' email accounts gets 10 Years

Hacker Who Leaked Scarlett Johansson Pics Gets 10 Years | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: "A Florida man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for hacking into email accounts belonging to actresses Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, singer Christina Aguilera, and other celebrities. During a hearing yesterday in Los Angeles, U.S. District Judge S. James Otero sentenced Christopher Chaney to 120 months in prison and ordered him to pay $66,179 in restitution. Otero said Chaney's actions demonstrated a "callous disregard to the victims." Chaney, a 36-year-old Jacksonville resident, stole nude photos, scripts, financial information, and other personal data from the email accounts of more than 50 celebrities. The judge yesterday heard a videotaped statement from an emotional Johansson, according to a report from the Associated Press. "I have been truly humiliated and embarrassed," Johansson said, according to the AP. "I find Christopher Chaney's actions to be perverted and reprehensible.". . . "

Cyber Security in 2013: What the Experts Predict
IBTimes.co.uk
2012 has been a momentous year for cyber security. From the rise of state-sponsored cyber espionage to the explosion of malware on the Android platform, and the naming of Anonymous as one of Time's 100 most influential people of the year, the past 12 ...

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Sandia creates cyber security institute
Albuquerque Journal (subscription)
“Sandia's responsibility for the cyber security aspects of the nuclear program, providing computer security for weapons, goes back decades,” said Senior Manager Ben Cook. “But now there's a more general, national need for these capabilities …We want ...

Albuquerque Journal (subscription)

Five-year plan in the works to revamp cyber security
Times of India
NEW DELHI: In its bid to meet the growing challenge of ever-increasing threat to the virtual world, the government has set in motion a five-year project to revamp the cyber security apparatus of critical sectors in the country. India has suffered 13 ...

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ABQ Journal
In fact, cyber warfare may have reached a turning point this summer, after unknown attackers used a sophisticated virus that destroyed 30,000 computers at the Saudi Arabian state oil company ARAMCO. The virus ... In October, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon ...

IT security trends in 2013: cyber war not on the horizon
RealWire (press release)
Bochum (Germany), December 17, 2012 – At the end of the year experts at G Data SecurityLabs are taking a moment to look both back and forward at IT security, attacks and cyber crime. In 2012, online criminals were opting for particularly intelligent ...

Public Private Partnership Confronts Cyber Security
Government Technology
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Government Technology

Champlain College expert: be vigilant for cyber criminals during holidays
vtdigger.org
17, 2012) – A cyber security expert at Champlain College is advising people to be on the lookout for online hoaxes and fraudulent e-mails designed to capitalize on their vulnerabilities in the wake of a tragedy like the Newtown, Conn. shootings and the ...

Openness is key to the world's cyber woes
Sydney Morning Herald
In opening remarks to the conference, the ITU secretary-general, Hamadan Toure, emphasised cyber security should come first and, implicitly, it should come under his purview. For all the commitments to openness, the conference is about the national ...

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