Privacy advocates, technologists and businesses including Apple have criticized the Australian bill and similar proposals elsewhere, saying such a plan would introduce portals for government abuse and malicious hackers alike.

The indictment includes notable cases like the attacks on the city of Atlanta, the city of Newark and the Port of San Diego.

U.S. prosecutors in New York unveiled a 13-count indictment charging suspected cybercriminals of orchestrating a scheme to defraud internet advertisers out of tens of millions of dollars.

Austin Thompson could get up to a decade in prison for DDoS attacks against Sonly Online Entertainment and other sites.

Joshua Schulte is alleged to have passed classified information to his family and smuggled cell phones into his jail cell.

Paras Jha is one of the masterminds behind the Mirari botnet, which has been used in several large-scale attacks.