| Abstract: | A judge postponed for three months convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick's trial on federal fraud and theft charges. US District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer delayed the start of Mitnick's trial to 20 April from 19 January at the request of his lawyers, who said that they needed more time to prepare. Mitnick is accused in 25 criminal counts of stealing proprietary information from Motorola, Nokia, Novell, Sun Microsystems and other companies by hacking into their computers. The charges against him include 14 counts of wire fraud, eight counts of illegal possession of computer files and passwords, and one count each of unauthorized access to a federal computer, damaging a computer and unlawfully intercepting electronic communications. |
