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Article | 8/06/2011 Four indicted in $1.5M ATM skimming operation
Three Romanian men and one Austrian man were indicted on Monday by U.S. federal prosecutors for allegedly stealing more than US$1.5 million by cloning...
Article | 4/06/2011 Canada blocks extradition of Cisco suspect
A Canadian judge has blocked the extradition of a former Cisco Systems executive and slammed that company and U.S. authorities for allegedly duping Ca...
Article | 27/05/2011 Two convicted in U.S. over counterfeit Cisco gear
A U.S. federal jury convicted two people this week over a scheme to import and sell counterfeit Cisco-branded networking equipment, the Department of ...
Article | 20/05/2011 Facebook will use Microsoft tech to find child pornography
Facebook will use PhotoDNA, an image analysis technology co-invented by Microsoft, to find child pornography on its site, the company <a href="http://...
Article | 20/05/2011 Top Indian politician to be arrested over India telecom scam
Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, a high-profile Indian politician and member of Parliament, is likely to be arrested later on Friday, after a special court in D...
Article | 13/05/2011 Report: DOJ investigates Google over drug ads
The U.S. Department of Justice has been investigating Google for accepting ads for illegal online prescription-drug sales, according to a report in th...
Article | 9/05/2011 White iPhone sparks skirmish at Beijing Apple Store
The long wait for Apple products in Beijing turned ugly over the weekend when a skirmish erupted outside one of the company's stores, resulting in a b...
Article | 6/05/2011 Man sentenced to prison for defrauding Cisco
A Maryland man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for directing a multimillion-dollar warranty fraud scheme targeting Cisco Systems, the U.S....
Article | 4/05/2011 US man pleads guilty to music piracy charges
A California man who participated in a so-called warez music-sharing group faces a sentence of five years in prison and a US$250,000 fine after pleadi...
Article | 22/04/2011 US man pleads guilty to $36.6 million worth of ID theft
A Georgia man connected to US$36.6 million in credit card fraud pleaded guilty Thursday to trafficking in counterfeit credit cards and aggravated iden...
Article | 21/04/2011 Cisco accused of orchestrating engineer's arrest
Cisco Systems orchestrated the arrest of Multiven founder Peter Alfred-Adekeye last year in order to force a settlement of Multiven's antitrust lawsu...
Article | 21/04/2011 US woman pleads guilty to selling counterfeit software
A Michigan woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge related to selling more than US$400,000 worth of counterfeit software on a website, the U.S. Dep...
Article | 20/04/2011 Former engineer who sued Cisco now faces criminal charges
A one-time Cisco engineer who had sued his former employer, alleging it monopolized the business of servicing and maintaining Cisco equipment, has bee...
Article | 16/04/2011 Executives with online poker sites face US charges
Eleven people, including the founders of three large poker websites, have been charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses...
Article | 12/04/2011 Hacker breaks into Barracuda Networks database
A hacker has broken into a Barracuda Networks database and obtained names and e-mail addresses of some of the security company's employees, channel pa...