AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison By Joris Evers A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out e-mail scams as well as related crimes.Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was convicted Friday on multiple counts by a jury in the U.S. District Court for Central District of California in Los.....
Operator of Helix Darknet Cryptocurrency ‘Mixer’ Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
WASHINGTON — Larry Dean Harmon, 41, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency “mixer” Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney.....
Akron Prodigy’s Death as Mysterious as His Short Life RJ2 Ryan Johnson
Submitted by Richard Gedeon The Independent (clevelandindependent.com) In the quiet, early-morning hours of January 14, a faint orange glow danced in the window of a tudor mansion on West Market, in a tony section of Akron that sees little real crime. The glow became more brilliant and gray smoke soon began billowing into the night sky. Around 2:40 a.m., a man inside the home called.....
The first version of Windows Media Player appeared in October 1991, when Windows 3.0 with Multimedia Extensions was released.[6] Originally called Media Player, this component was included with "Multimedia PC"-compatible machines but not available for retail sale. It was capable of playing .mmm animation files, and could be extended to support other formats.[7] It used MCI to handle media files. Being a component of Windows, Media Player shows the same version number as that of.....
The Phone Punx Network Presents--Phone Punx Magazine------Issue three----"We are the phony in telephony"November 07, 1999Last Updated: November 07, 1999http://fly.to/ppn(Mirror: http://worship.to/ppn)phonepunx@yahoo.com Contents ~Intro by Mohawk ~Beginners Guide to the DACS, Part One by BitError ~CallerID: Up close and Personal by hatredonalog ~DATUs - The Tool of the New Age Phreak: Part II by MMX ~Frequency Counters by Black Axe ~An Overview of Trunked Radio Systems by.....
Wired – Cracker launches attack on NASA. – November 23, 1999
The Web pages of three US Government agencies, including NASA's Goddard Flight Center, have been defaced by a cracker who is worried that US government security systems are vulnerable to cyberattack. The front pages of the sites for NASA's Goddard Flight Center international page, the Bureau of Land Management's National Training Center, and the Defense Contracts Audit Agency, on Wednesday were replaced with a page showing a cartoon of.....
CNN – Feds leave doors open for hackers. – December 22, 1999
(IDG) -- After repeated break-ins through the same door, a shaken business owner likely would get the message and buy a sturdy lock, a big dog or a loud alarm. But many agencies have failed to follow such common sense. Repeated intrusions of federal World Wide Web sites reveal that agencies are not adequately training their IT sentries to take advantage of readily available systems.....
HNN – The story of the great Y2K swindle…. – January 07, 2000
The Setup What do billions of dollars, billions of useless books, and billions of prophetic statements have in common? If you guessed the infamous Y2K rollover, you are probably one of the millions of people who were informed of some global catastrophe set to take place the first of this year. There was not a paper in publication these last few years that didn't mention.....