NCS 7/13/11

Published: July 13, 2011, 5:30 p.m.

b"A U.S. man who hacked into his neighbors' Wi-Fi network and tried to frame them with threatening emails to the U.S. vice president has been sentenced to 18 years in jail.\\xa0 U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank sentenced Barry Ardolf, 46, on Tuesday after listening to the tearful testimony of the victim.\\n Hacker group Anonymous on July 11 released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of U.S. defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.\\xa0 Anonymous made available a file containing more than 90,000 email addresses and other information it said in online messages that it stole from an unprotected server at Booz Allen.\\n Verizon Wireless will hit the century mark with its 4G LTE next week, covering 100 markets with its speedy next-generation network. \\xa0\\xa0Tulsa, Okla., will be the 100th market covered by Verizon's new network, which will officially be announced on July 21."