Nick Bredimus On Arrested Software Hackers

The operators of a Web site that allowed MySpace.com users to track their visitors have been charged with trying to extort $150,000 from the popular social networking site....

FBI agents have arrested a Russian programmer for giving away software that removes the restrictions on encrypted Adobe Acrobat files. Dmitry Sklyarov, a lead programmer for Russian software company ElcomSoft, was visiting the United States for the annual Defcon hacker convention, where he gave a talk on the often-flawed security of e-books....

Indian hackers always thought they were too sophisticated to fall into the hands of the rough cops in this country, whom various human rights groups routinely accuse of brutality.

But that feeling evaporated after one of the four people arrested recently in connection with a hacking incident accused Mumbai police of breaking his hand during interrogation....

Police in Wales have arrested Curador, a hacker suspected of stealing thousands of credit cards from nine e-commerce sites and posting many of them on the Web.

The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center confirmed Friday that Welsh police have taken into custody two 18-year-old men, both residents of Dyfed-Powsys, Wales and presumed to be Curador and his associate. The names of the men have not yet been released.

At the end of a painstaking investigation, Carabinieri from the Rome Roma Trastevere unit have arrested a group of hackers who used the internet to steal confidential credit card codes to then use them to make purchases online from all over the world....

The Detroit Free Press is reporting this week on the arrest by the FBI of two men on a criminal charge of causing damage to a protected computer system -- a system they accessed using a Wi-Fi connection....

A group of hackers has been arrested in Buryatia by the department for the struggle against organised crime under the Interior Ministry of the republic with the participation of officers of the Federal Security Service....

Two men in England and one in the U.S. were arrested yesterday on suspicion of being part of a hacking group that created a relatively little-known Internet worm, officials said. The two English men, a 19-year-old electrician and a 21-year-old unemployed man, were arrested after two addresses in Durhamshire, England, were searched yesterday morning. Evidence relating to computer and drug offenses was found and computers were seized, the U.K.'s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) said in a statement.

A 17-year-old in Champaign, Ill., was also arrested by authorities, and additional evidence was seized, a spokeswoman for the NHTCU said Friday....

He calls himself the Revenger....The Revenger is Sgt. Dan Pasquale, a fremont police officer who's been operating what he says is the nation's first computer sting operation based at a local law enforcement agency. Since November, when he first tapped into a nationwide underground computer network, pasquale said, he has communicated regularly with about 130 computer thieves in at least seven states.

Of the seven hackers, or phreakers, arrested wednesday, three were 15 years old; two were 16; one was 17; and one, 19....