Hacker who stole Celebrity Emails, Sex Tapes, Movie Scripts Gets 5 Years in Prison

The Hacker News Daily Updates Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual for IT Pros This manual is packed with actionable info that you need to prevent infections, and what to do when you are hit with ransomware. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Dec 8, 2016 Russia proposes 10 Year in Prison Sentence for Hackers and Malware Authors The Russian government has introduced a draft bill that proposes prison sentences as punishment for hackers and cyber criminals creating malicious software used in targeting critical Russian infrastructure, even if they have no part in actual cyber attacks. The bill, published on the Russian ... Read More Turkish Hackers Are Giving Away Prizes For Participating In DDoS Attacks DDoS has become a game now that could knock any service offline. A Turkish hacking group is encouraging individuals to join its DDoS-for-Points platform that features points and prizes for carrying out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a list of predetermined targets. The ... Read More Hacker who stole Celebrity Emails, Sex Tapes, Movie Scripts Gets 5 Years in Prison A hacker who was arrested last year for hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal the unreleased movie and television scripts, their private messages, and sex tapes to sell them has finally been sentenced five years in prison. Alonzo Knowles, a 24-year-old Bahamian man, was convicted by ... Read More 5-Year-Old Linux Kernel Local Privilege Escalation Flaw Discovered A 5-year-old serious privilege-escalation vulnerability has been discovered in Linux kernel that affects almost every distro of the Linux operating system, including Redhat, and Ubuntu. Over a month back, a nine-year-old privilege-escalation vulnerability, dubbed "Dirty COW," was discovered in the ... Read More Hacking Millions with Just an Image — Recipe: Pixels, Ads & Exploit Kit If you have visited any popular mainstream website over the past two months, your computer may have been infected — Thanks to a new exploit kit discovered by security researchers. Researchers from antivirus provider ESET released a report on Tuesday stating that they have discovered an exploit ... Read More Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual for IT Pros This manual is packed with actionable info that you need to prevent infections, and what to do when you are hit with ransomware. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India