Russian Spam Mastermind Is Jailed

Georgiy Avanesov has been jailed for 4 years because he has hacked over 30 million PC's. He was sending out over 3 billion junk mails a day, he even hired other cyber criminals. They attacked websites, advertised fake anti-virus programmes and sent out their own spam and viruses.

 By hacking websites and doing work for hire the 27 year-old managed to earn around £80,000 a month. This is a serious amount of money to be earning so just think of how many people he's stolen from and how many people who are now out of pocket and can't even work out how. When the Dutch police gained control of what he did Georgiy tried to stop them from controlling his websites by sending out a web-based attack on the police trying to gain everything back although he failed and was arrested shortly after. Amazing what you can manage to hack into, don't you think?

Joke Gone To Far?

An 18 year old man from a university in the US killed himself due to a joke that had gone seriously wrong. Dharun Ravi has been given 30 days in prison for secretly filming his room mate Tyler Clementi during a gay encounter. He plastered the video all over the internet, he even tweeted it. Only half a dozen other students saw this video but this still caused Tyler to take his own life. He shouldn't even have been spying on him let alone showing it to people that Tyler knew. Tyler's dad commented that his son was a 'kind and gentle soul' his family are distraught and called the act a 'cold-hearted violation'.

Thousands of people are outraged about what has happened and they believe that Dharun should have gone to prison for 10 years or more. It's been reported that Dharun didn't apologise once for what he has done, not even to Tyler's family. In my opinion this whole thing is so wrong and never should have happend, don't you thnik?