A man who posed as an Internet telephone service wholesaler has admitted his role in a scheme to pilfer more than $4.4 million from multiple Voice over Internet Protocol service providers, the FBI’s Newark office announced. Vinod Tonangi, 32, of Guttenberg, N.J., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He entered his guilty plea [...]
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Federal Communications Commission Chief Technologist Dr. Douglas C. Sicker has been announced as the keynote speaker for the first annual SIP Network Operators Conference, being held in Herndon, Va. SIPNOC, held April 25-27, will focus on issues critical to the reliable and successful deployment and operation of SIP-based services in carrier networks. The event will [...]
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Crimes committed with the use of IT account for about 70 percent of all illegal activity in Abu Dhabi, according to a new report cited by GulfNews. Addressing interrogators, judges and law students, Maj. Saeed Mohammad Al Hajeri, lead of the Information Technology Crime Department of Dubai Police, said recent studies show that cyber criminals [...]
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Romanian authorities have uncovered a cyber-crime network blamed for causing more than 13.5 million dollars in losses to firms in the United States, Britain, South Africa, Italy and Romania, AFP reports. Police arrested 42 people and took them into custody Tuesday while several computers and hard disks were seized, according to a statement from the [...]
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A man in Ghana has been sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for using stolen credit-card numbers to siphon more than $400,000 from U.S. citizens. A judge also ordered Ademola Ismaila Adegoke to serve two years of supervised release after his prison term. Adegoke agreed to pay nearly $700,000 restitution after pleading guilty to wire [...]
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A man who previously admitted to selling around 10 million minutes of VoIP calls for approximately $1 million was earlier this week sentenced to 120 months in prison. Edwin Andres Pena transmitted more than 10 million minutes of unauthorized telephone calls over the victims’ networks. Pena, a Venezuelan citizen, fled the United States after his [...]
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Hacker Edwin Andrew Pena of Miami has admitted to selling around 10 million minutes of VoIP calls for approximately $1 million, according to The Register. Pena routed the VoIP calls over telecommunication networks under the radar. He pleaded guilty to two felonies; conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and unauthorized access to a protected [...]
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