http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/policemen-jailed-for-hacking-into-network-1.639635 By Bassam Za' za' Senior Reporter Gulf News June 11, 2010 Dubai: Two policemen have been jailed after a court convicted them yesterday of tapping into the Dubai Police network system and cancelling Dh3,650 worth of traffic violations. The Dubai Court of First Instance's Presiding Judge Hamad Abdul Latif Abdul Jawad jailed each of the Emirati policemen, a 23-year-old first corporal and a 22-year-old first policeman, for three months. When the defendants appeared in court earlier, they denied the charges. Prosecutors had charged 23-year-old S.A. and 22-year-old S.M. with abusing their duty at Dubai Police's operation room and accessing the network [without their superiors' approval] to cancel their own traffic violations and those of others. [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Thu Jun 10 2010 - 22:04:14 PDT
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