Max Vision Pleads Guilty

The prime target of an online FBI sting operation has plead guilty to wire fraud.

Max Vision (previously known as Max Butler) was caught following FBI agent J. Keith Mularski's infiltration of a cybercrime ring.

Vision is accused of trafficking 1.8 million credit card numbers and running a clearing house that enabled other cybercriminals to trade with each other illegally.

More details:

• San Francisco man pleads guilty in Pennsylvania to credit card scam
• Max Vision pleads guilty to running cybercrime bazaar

Phone Hacker Jailed for 11 Years

What happens when you make prank calls that send SWAT teams to people's houses? You get sent to jail - for ages.

The Register reports on the downfall of Matthew Weigman (19), who made hoax phone calls to emergency services, resulting in armed teams of police raiding the homes of his victims. He's just been sentences to 11 years in jail.

More details about the case are available on Wired, which covers Weigman's guilty plea and provides a dramatic rundown of events.

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