The Defonic Crew, also known as the Defonic Team Screen Name Club, or just DFNCTSC for short, is the hacking group to which the young hacker who hacked Paris Hilton’s Sidekick belonged. Now the youngest member of Defonic Crew has pleaded guilty to the hacking.

Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the former Microsoft executive who left MSFT to join Google, and over which Microsoft sued Google, may start his job at Google pending the outcome of the trial, the Court says

William Genovese Jr. goes by the code name “illwill” or “xillwillx”, and admits to trying to sell stolen Microsoft Windows source code. But he wants you to know that he meant no illwill.

Movies may be available simultaneously in the theaters and on DVD as studios contemplate earlier release dates for DVDs in an effort to get the jump on movie pirating. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, the Motion Picture Association has gotten an open search warrant for the entire city of New Delhi, India.

Jealous Lover Spyware “Lover Spy” users are arrested along with Lover Spy’s author, and charged with all sorts of nasty crimes. If you’re thinking of using spyware to spy on an ex, don’t.

The Kutztown 13 are a group of 13 high school students who repeatedly end-ran security and other limiting and monitoring software installed on their school-issued laptops, installed their own software, and generally showed a blatant disregard for the school’s efforts to limit their access to the Internet, software downloads, and each other from their school laptops. The school filed felony computer trespass and theft charges against the Kutztown 13, and cries of outrage and indignation arose across the country in support of the Kutztown 13.

The Zobot Botzor.exe (a/k/a worm-rbot.cbq, rbot.cbq, and rbot.ebq) and Mytob worm authors are believed to have been arrested in Turkey and Morroco. Authorities in both countries, in cooperation with the FBI and Microsoft, arrested Farid Essebar and Atilla Ekici, using online nicknames Diab10 and Coder, who are believed to have authored the worms.

Jason Smathers, who pleaded guilty to stealing a list of 92 million email addresses from America Online (AOL), has been sentenced to one year and three months in prison. According to reports, Judge Alvin Hellerstein gave Smathers a sentence on the lenient side both because the judge believed that Smathers…

Florida librarian Sue Martin has been suspended, and the Valparaiso City Commissioner is recommending that she be fired, after Michael Bushee, a registered offender, used the Valparaiso library’s computers to access illegal online child-themed content. Authorities claim that three male minors also accessed adult content from the library’s computers. Said…

People seeking to take advantage of the Federal Copyright Office’s recent rules allowing an online preregistration of copyright may find that they can only preregister their copyright if they use Internet Explorer.

Search marketing company 180 Solutions has filed a lawsuit against several of its own affiliates, after it discovered that those affiliates were using botnets to install the 180solutions solution on unsuspecting users’ computers, without their permission. 180 Solutions explains that they “provide search assistant software that delivers consumers to highly…

King of Spam (make that former King of Spam) Scott Richter has closed a chapter in his book of spam kingness, and has settled a lawsuit with Microsoft for a cool $7million. Which of course leads one to wonder just how much he actually made while seated on his spamming throne.

In a stunning victory (please note irony in use of the word “stunning”), a Federal court has slapped down the appeal of high volume email deployer White Buffalo Ventures, an online dating service also doing business as LongHornSingles.com. The reason for the dripping irony is because in fact the lawsuit…

The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, has just passed a tough new law aimed at spam, unsolicited text messages, and junk faxes. The new law requires a recipient’s opt-in, meaning that a commercial message must be solicited – the recipient must have agreed to receive commercial email from the sender first. Israeli…

Argentine authorites have arrested fifteen people in a multinational phishing scam, and, separately, the U.S. FBI has arrested 8 people in a global online piracy investigation, spokespersons for the agencies have said. In the phishing scam, which was truly international, police arrested suspects from Argentina, Spain, Italy and Romania who…