Silk Road founder challenges conviction, life sentence
A San Francisco man who created the online drug-selling site Silk Road asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to toss out his conviction and life prison sentence.
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Latvian who co-wrote worldwide computer virus can go home
A Latvian computer code writer who admitted a role in spreading a virus to over a million computers worldwide, including some at NASA, can return home after serving over 20 months in prison.
Security
Jan 5, 2016
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Tentative agreement reached in dispute over endangered fish
Wildlife advocates reached a tentative agreement with the U.S. government in a legal dispute over an endangered fish in the Yellowstone River along the Montana-North Dakota border.
Ecology
Dec 21, 2015
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Russian charged with hacking asks judge to throw out charges
A Russian man charged with hacking into U.S. businesses to steal credit card information will try to convince a federal judge on Thursday that his 2014 arrest in the Maldives was illegal and his indictment should be dismissed.
Security
Dec 10, 2015
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Secret Service agent sentenced in online currency theft
A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Secret Service agent to nearly six years in prison following his conviction on charges related to the theft of electronic currency during a high-profile investigation into the ...
Security
Dec 7, 2015
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US trial convicts trio of high-tech exports to Russia
Two men and a woman were convicted at trial in New York on Monday of illegally exporting high-tech electronics from Texas to Russian military and spy agencies.
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Oct 26, 2015
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Colorado man gets probation in fossil importation case
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Colorado man to one year of probation for understating the value of unspecified fossils imported from China to the United States.
Archaeology
Oct 7, 2015
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Judge largely upholds Berkeley cellphone ordinance
A federal judge has mostly upheld a new Berkeley ordinance that requires cellphone sellers to warn customers about keeping their cellphones too close to their bodies.
Telecom
Sep 22, 2015
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Judge to move forward with suit over NSA's bulk collection (Update)
A federal judge said Wednesday he plans to push ahead with a challenge to the National Security Agency's bulk collection of telephone data on hundreds of millions of Americans, even as the program is set to expire at the ...
Security
Sep 2, 2015
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Florida man pleads guilty to role in cybercriminal exchange (Update)
A Florida man pleaded guilty to being part of a team that corrupted computer networks and sent millions of spam messages to people in order to help computer marketers collect email addresses and phone numbers.
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