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- Sue-happy RIAA gets hit with malicious prosecution claim
- In their crusade against illegal file sharing, it looks like the Recording Industry Association of America has taken their job a bit too seriously. Ars Technica reports that one exonerated defendant may bring suit against the RIAA for malicious prosecution, and there may be more.Tanya Andersen, a disabled single mother...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-26
- Teacher in porn popup case likely to be exonerated
- The substitute teacher who was convicted on four felony counts of risking injury to minors after she failed to prevent porn ads from popping up on a classroom computer has been granted a motion for a new trial, reports Wired News. Julie Amero, of Norwich, Conn., who was to be...
- Tags: Courts
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Dangerous legal loophole in child-porn prosecutions under review
- A little more than a year ago, I wrote a column entitled A porn trap to steer clear of that dealt with some thorny questions that most would rather not ask when attempting "throw the book" at creators, distributors, and consumers of child pornography. After all, the scum should...
- Tags: prosecution
- Blog posts 2005-09-22
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- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For Simplicity
- A Wii Legal Action: Publicity For SimplicityRather off opinion TomTom, respected your opinions for a long time, but this one is just way off base. First off, anyone who tracks this space, as I do, knows that Hillcrest does not need any more publicity. It's probably one of the...
- Tags: U.S. Patent Pending, patent, Hillcrest, Nintendo Wii, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Discussion threads 2008-08-22
- Hack-the-T presentation hits the Web
- Hack-the-T presentation hits the WebMBTA made it publically available anyway...Look, the orginal paper didn't include the most sensative material anyway. But the MBTA did obtain that though a court order and then submitted it to the courts in a way that made it publically available. sheesh. It...
- Tags: SECURITY, Web, MBTA, Hack-the-T presentation, Hack-the-T, extradition, messenger
- Discussion threads 2008-08-11
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft case
- Indictments in huge hacking & theft caseNo sympathy on my partThere's something terribly ironic that hackers "concealed the data in encrypted computer servers that they controlled in Eastern Europe and the United States." I thought information was suppose to be free...I'm not interested in hearing about good hackers and...
- Tags: SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Retail, hacker, hacking, huge hacking, wireless, Manifesto, theft case
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Gary McKinnon – 'world's most dangerous hacker' – to be extradited
- The Guardian, out of the United Kingdom, is reporting that Gary McKinnon, the "world's most dangerous hacker", will be extradited to the United States to face criminal hacking charges. McKinnon, a 42 year old unemployed systems administrator from north London, allegedly hacked into systems belonging to the US army,...
- Tags: Hacker, Gary McKinnon, Hacking, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Green light for hacker's extradition
- Green light for hacker's extraditionUS owned server spaceWhen he hacked into our military's network's, he was trespassing on US owned server space.The EU would cry bloody murder if we had a little pasty 16 yr old hack MI6 and do what this guy did, and we didn't extradite him. book...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Green Light, extradition, hacker
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- Responding to the DNS vulnerability and attacks
- Responding to the DNS vulnerability and attacksThis is good to know ...[i]Furthermore, if you have a server behind a NAT device, some NAT devices will undo the UDP port randomness introduced by the patch. Fortunately, Linux iptables and OpenBSD’s pf are not vulnerable, but many popular NAT devices are.[/i]I've...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Linux, UNIX, SECURITY, Operating systems, NAT Device, Network Address Translation, DNS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Another student hacks another police website
- Oh the fun. Once again, another police website has been hacked by a student, showing that even the police aren't safe from all crimes. This is another link in the long chain of attacks over the years from egotistical teenagers trying to get a kick out of life without sticking...
- Tags: Web Site, Attack, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain. The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...
- Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Integrated Intelligence Drives Performance for Crown Prosecution Service
- Crown Prosecution Service CPS wanted to collate and analyze case load, payroll, and performance data from multiple sources to optimize budget allocation and workforce planning across the CPS's 42 geographical areas. The challenge was to streamline compiling of annual reports to the treasury, attorney general, and parliament and gain rapid...
- Tags: Business Intelligence, Oracle Corp., Performance, Payroll, Performance Management, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Pricing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2008-07-01
- Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'
- An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast – Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...
- Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Tech, telecom join up to beat back trolls
- Seeing as how patent reform has died on the vine, several tech and telecom companies are taking matters into their own hands, the Wall Street Journal reports. Scared by the NTP v Research in Motion case, in which the BlackBerry maker came perilously close to folding...
- Tags: Patent, Troll, NTP, Telephony, Telecommunications, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the mostJust a guessI would suspect that most of the china sites are owned by American spammers,malware owners.I say we just cut China's segment off...Until the Chinese government seems to give a damn about poision food, poison web sites and rampant piracy, I...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Channel management, Web site development, Spam, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Looking Back, web malware, software, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide case
- Drew pleads not guilty in suicide caseBig TalkLet us know when that child of yours turns 13, then we can compare notes. I bet if that happened to your child you would be talking out of the other side of your mouth. We will never know exactly what...
- Tags: Lori Drew, CFAA
- Discussion threads 2008-06-18
- Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?
- Time to overhaul grandfather's FDA approval process?FDA Approval ProcessI believe that you are confusing the issue of grandfathering to devices before 1976 and the requirement to submit what the FDA calls a 510K in order to use device similarity to an already grandfathered device.Most new medical devices are 3 or...
- Tags: Federal government, HEALTHCARE, FDA-Approval Process, FDA-approval, FDA
- Discussion threads 2008-06-05
- E-trade, Schwab, Google fall victim to "Office Space/Superman 3" attack
- E-trade, Schwab, Google fall victim to "Office Space/Superman 3" attackSo did they break agreements somewhere?If the companies agree to send this small deposit for free then what did they do wrong? Or is this just the normal case of an individual being chastised for exploiting a loophole while companies...
- Tags: Regulations, USA PATRIOT Act, E-trade, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., Michael Largent, Google Inc., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
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