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Article | 18/06/2013 Swedish court OKs Pirate Bay co-founder Svartholm Warg's extradition to Denmark
The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, th...
Article | 17/06/2013 Apple received thousands of data requests from US law enforcers
Apple received between 4000 and 5000 requests for customer data from US law enforcement between December 1 and May 31, according to the company.
Article | 15/06/2013 Facebook, Microsoft disclose little on national security requests
Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second ...
Article | 13/06/2013 US prosecutors propose kill switch to prevent smartphone theft
U.S. prosecutors are proposing that smartphone makers offer a "kill switch" in all new phones produced by the start of next year as part of an initiat...
Article | 12/06/2013 US charges eight with multimillion-dollar cybercrime
U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts at ...
Article | 12/06/2013 France Télécom CEO charged with conspiracy to defraud
France Télécom's CEO Stéphane Richard has been charged with conspiracy to defraud, a Paris court announced Wednesday. The charge relates to alleged ac...
Article | 12/06/2013 Chinese seller of pirated software sentenced to 12 years in US prison
The operator of a website that sold more than US$100 million worth of pirated software to customers worldwide was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in a U...
Article | 10/06/2013 Apple's law-enforcement critics 'appreciative' of new activation lock
Two prominent law enforcers in the U.S. who have been pushing Apple to do more to combat iPhone theft say they appreciate a new feature previewed earl...
Article | 3/06/2013 Prosecutor: Manning shared data without regard for national security
U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning accused of sharing thousands of classified government documents with WikiLeaks, knew that the informatio...
Article | 31/05/2013 Secretly shooting videos and photos in private settings criminalized in Sweden
Sweden's parliament has voted in favor of a law that bans taking pictures and filming in a private environment without first getting permission from p...
Article | 31/05/2013 NZ ordered to return some seized material to Kim Dotcom
Material irrelevant to police investigation that was seized from Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three associates in January 2012 will have to be re...
Article | 29/05/2013 Anonymous member pleads guilty to Stratfor hack
A former member of a band of hackers faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to a single computer hacking charge.
Article | 24/05/2013 Proposed law would make reprogramming cellphone IDs a crime
Reprogramming the identification number of a cellphone could be punishable with a prison sentence of up to five years under the terms of a proposed la...
Article | 16/05/2013 Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the grou...
Article | 16/05/2013 Megaupload can appeal evidence ruling in NZ Supreme Court
New Zealand's Supreme Court on Thursday granted Megaupload leave to appeal a ruling that denied it access to evidence the U.S. government holds.