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United States v. Morris was an appeal of the conviction of Robert Tappan Morris for creating and releasing the Morris worm, one of the first Internet-based worms.This case resulted in the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Morris was prosecuted for releasing the worm, and became the first person convicted under the then-new Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). [ 1 ] [ 5 ] He went on to cofound the online store Viaweb , one of the first web applications , [ 6 ] and later the venture capital funding firm Y Combinator , both with Paul Graham and Trevor Blackwell .
Van Buren v. United States, 593 U.S. 374 (2021), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) and its definition of "exceeds authorized access" in relation to one intentionally accessing a computer system they have authorization to access.
Morris was tried and convicted of violating United States Code Title 18 (18 U.S.C. § 1030), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, [12] in United States v. Morris . After appeals, he was sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service, and a fine of US$10,050 (equivalent to $22,000 in 2023) plus the costs of his supervision. [ 13 ]
Convicted computer criminals are people who are caught and convicted of computer crimes such as breaking into computers or computer networks. [1] Computer crime can be broadly defined as criminal activity involving information technology infrastructure, including illegal access (unauthorized access), illegal interception (by technical means of non-public transmissions of computer data to, from ...
Ex-Homeland Security agent John Olivas of Riverside is convicted at civil rights trial for blocking two women from telling police he sexually assaulted them.
Poulsen served in a number of journalistic capacities at California-based security research firm SecurityFocus, where he began writing security and hacking news in early 2000. Despite a late arrival to a market saturated with technology media, SecurityFocus News became a well-known name in the tech news world during Poulsen's tenure with the ...
Other well-represented crimes among illegal immigrants known to be living in the US include sexual assault — with 523 convicted or suspected rapists in ICE custody and 20,061 not — and assault ...