Students Face 1 Year in Jail for Hacking

July 27, 2006

(AP) -- Two students each face up to a year in jail for a prank that involved hacking into a professor's computer, giving grades to other students and sending pizza, magazine subscriptions and CDs to the professor's home.

Content from The Associated Press expires 15 days after original publication date. For more information about The Associated Press, please visit www.ap.org .

Similar stories from PHYSorg:

Undergrad academic performance linked to neural signals

Sep 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

New direction in teaching computer science emphasizes activity, interaction, critique

Feb 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

Prosecutors say man stole 130M credit card numbers

Aug 17, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 4

Improvements in School Nutrition Have Positive Influence on Youth Eating Behaviors

Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Maine expanding school laptop program with Apple

Mar 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Rate this story - 2.3 /5 (8 votes)

rank
1
2
3
4
5

view popular

Other News

Moving video to 'captcha' robot hackers

Technology / Computer Sciences

28 minutes ago | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

We see the popular "captcha" security mechanism often ― wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box. It's used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking into servers and databases. ...

Hearing assistance comes to the home (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

1hour ago | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have combined state-of-the-art technologies to help end the isolation suffered by the hearing impaired. End users are eager to get their hands on the suite of tools.

UK's O2 apologizes for smart phone service trouble

Technology / Business

10 minutes ago | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The head of mobile phone operator O2 has apologized to customers in the British capital who were unable to make calls after the group's network was swamped by people using smart phones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone.

A man passes through a high-tech explosive-detection machine at John F. Kennedy airport in New York

After foiled US plane attack, scanners revisited

Technology / Other

6 hours ago | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

As US lawmakers demand to know how a would-be attacker smuggled explosives aboard a plane on Christmas Day, the use of body scanners at airport security points is likely to be revisited.

Curtain falling on 'Digital Decade'

Technology / Hi Tech

Dec 27, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (11) | 8

While it got off to a rocky start with the overhyped Y2K bug and dotcom bubble, the era dubbed the "Digital Decade" by Microsoft's Bill Gates has turned out to be a dizzying period of innovation.