国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
Robert and Carleen Thomas launch the Amateur Action bulletin board system (BBS), which features a downloadable collection of amateur pornographic photographs in the .gif format. The BBS will soon have thousands of members and will require a subscription fee. It will become the center of a national battle over obscenity laws and first amendment rights on the internet after the Thomases are arrested in California on charges filed in Tennessee.
Richard Machado, a 21 year-old Los Angeles college dropout, becomes the first person to ever be convicted of a hate crime committed in cyberspace after he sent racist death threats via email to fifty-nine Asian students. The jury deliberated for a day before returning a verdict confirming that sending threats over the Internet is the same as sending threats over the phone or through the postal system. On May 4, Machado will be sentenced to one year in prison, time served. Read more about the trial andsentencing at CNet.
The website of the Israeli Knesset (Parliment) is hacked anonymously.
2006
Christopher Maxwell, age 20, of of Vacaville, California is indicted by a federal grand jury in Seattle in a two count indictment of Conspiracy to Intentionally cause Damage to a Protected Computer and Computer Fraud. Maxwell allegedly created and deployed a botnet via a virus in order to install adware on unwary internet users’ computers. As the botnet expanded, it disrupted computer communications at Seattle’s Northwest Hospital in January 2005. The disruption caused widespread malfunctions. Doors to operating rooms didn’t open, pagers didn’t work, and computers in the intensive care unit crashed. Two unnamed juvenile co-conspirators are being prosecuted in another state. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI), the three netted more than a hundred thousand dollars from the scheme, but damaged networks belong to the Colton Unified School District and the Department of Defense, as well as the hospital. In May, Maxwell will plead guilty to both charges, and on August 25, he will be sentenced to thirty-seven months in prison.
Google introduces the Gmail for your Domain service which allows organizations to offer email through Gmail using their own domain.
2009
The European Union announced that it has signed a pact with seventeen social networks including Facebook, Google, and MySpace to improve safeguards against online cyber-bullying.
2010年2月10日，MySpace再一次人事变动，CEO Owen Van Natta 离开公司，Jason Hirschhorn 和 Mike Jones 升任联合总裁。
