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Article | 28/03/2013 Wisconsin man charged with participating in Anonymous DDoS
A man in Wisconsin has been charged with participation in a distributed denial-of-service attack in February, 2011 against Koch Industries by hacker g...
Article | 27/03/2013 Judge recommends dismissal of Ceglia's ownership lawsuit against Facebook
A judge in New York has recommended that a lawsuit filed by Paul D. Ceglia, claiming half ownership of Facebook, should be dismissed.
Article | 26/03/2013 Former CIO at Foundry Networks charged with insider trading
A former CIO and vice president at networking hardware vendor Foundry Networks has been charged with insider trading in conjunction with the company's...
Article | 21/03/2013 French Jewish Students' Union seeks €38.5M in criminal damages from Twitter
The French Jewish Students' Union has filed a lawsuit seeking €38.5 million (US$50 million) in criminal damages from Twitter and its CEO Dick Costolo ...
Article | 20/03/2013 ACLU sues SF over warrantless cellphone search
The ACLU of Northern California is challenging a police search of a suspect's cellphone after his arrest, saying it violated his civil rights and thos...
Article | 19/03/2013 Microsoft taking bribery allegations 'seriously'
Microsoft is taking seriously allegations that business partners engaged in bribery to gain government contracts in three countries outside the US, th...
Article | 19/03/2013 US defense scientist bought pirated software from Russians, Chinese, DOJ says
The former chief scientist at a Kentucky defense contractor has been sentenced to a year in prison for buying pirated software from Russian and Chines...
Article | 1/03/2013 Megaupload loses bid to see more evidence from US
Megaupload lost a bid on Friday to see a trove of evidence held by U.S. prosecutors prior to extradition proceedings expected to begin later this year...
Article | 20/02/2013 Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones
More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress maki...
Article | 15/02/2013 Dutch MP fined for hacking into medical file system
Dutch Member of Parliament (MP) Henk Krol was fined €750 (US$1,000) by the district court of Oost-Brabant on Friday for breaking and entering the syst...
Article | 14/02/2013 Spanish police break up €1 million ransomware crime ring
Spanish police say they've broken up a crime ring that extorted money from Internet users by accusing them of viewing child pornography or terrorist-r...
Article | 8/02/2013 Macmillan will end e-book discounting ban in price-fixing settlement
The company that publishes books under the Macmillan imprint has agreed to allow discounting of its electronic books as part of a settlement with the ...
Article | 6/02/2013 Four charged with selling bleach online as miracle cure
Four people who allegedly used a website to market industrial bleach as a cure for arthritis, cancer and other illnesses are facing numerous criminal ...
Article | 4/02/2013 Dutch man sentenced in US to 12 years in credit card scam
A 22-year-old Dutch man who sold credit card details online was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in a US prison in a fraud prosecutors alleged caused m...
Article | 28/01/2013 WhatsApp could face prosecution on poor privacy
A yearlong investigation by government privacy watchdogs in Canada and the Netherlands identified major weaknesses in the way the WhatsApp cellphone m...