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Article | 18/12/2012 Former executive convicted for LCD price fixing
A former executive at Taiwanese LCD marker AU Optronics has been convicted of participating in a worldwide conspiracy to fix the prices of LCD panels,...
Article | 11/12/2012 Gang responsible for multimillion-dollar online auction fraud busted in Romania
Romanian authorities dismantled a cybercriminal ring that stole an estimated US$4 million from U.S. citizens by posting offers for non-existent items ...
Article | 7/12/2012 Pirate Bay co-founder's detention restrictions eased
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's remains in a Swedish jail but is no longer detained with restrictions and can communicate with others...
Article | 6/12/2012 Former Anonymous member convicted in attacks against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa, others
A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymo...
Article | 3/12/2012 Autonomy founder Lynch unveils website, continuing public war with HP
Autonomy founder Mike Lynch has created a new website where he will apparently keep a running stockpile of his responses to Hewlett-Packard's allegati...
Article | 29/11/2012 UK man settles with US over TVShack.net copyright charges
A British man has struck a deal to avoid extradition to the U.S. on copyright infringement charges for creating a website that directed users to popul...
Article | 27/11/2012 Autonomy's Lynch declares innocence in open letter to HP board, HP fires back
The feud between Autonomy founder Mike Lynch and Hewlett-Packard's leadership over alleged accounting fraud at the software vendor has intensified, wi...
Article | 21/11/2012 Whitman says HP '100 per cent committed' to Autonomy products
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has moved to reassure customers that the future of its Autonomy product line is safe, a day after HP disclosed an alle...
Article | 21/11/2012 AT&T iPad hacker plans to appeal felony conviction
A man who exposed a major privacy weakness that divulged email addresses of iPad users on AT&T's network plans to appeal his conviction on two felony ...
Article | 20/11/2012 HP to 'seek redress' for alleged Autonomy accounting fraud
Hewlett-Packard is planning to "aggressively" seek recompense for alleged accounting fraud related to the acquisition of its Autonomy unit, which resu...
Article | 15/11/2012 US agencies target bogus business opportunities
Three U.S. agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogu...
Article | 15/11/2012 US jury indicts Dutch man for disabling multiplayer online game
A grand jury in New Hampshire has indicted a Dutch man for allegedly conspiring to hack into and disable servers belonging to Rampid Interactive, a co...
Article | 15/11/2012 Google will not be prosecuted for Street View Wi-Fi sniffing in Germany
The public prosecutor in Hamburg has decided not to start a criminal investigation into the way Googles' Street View cars gathered data from unencrypt...
Article | 15/11/2012 Two indicted in alleged theft of court database source code
Two former employees of Alabama's court system were indicted on Wednesday for allegedly stealing the source code for a court-records database and tran...
Article | 12/11/2012 Pirate Bay co-founder now suspected of serious fraud and another data intrusion
Swedish authorities now suspects Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of serious fraud and another data intrusion in addition to the alleged ...