Egypt-based steelmaker Ezz Steel has given details of the Egyptian Court of Cassation's decision on the case regarding its acquisition of the El-Dekheila steel plant. The Court of Cassation has accepted the appeal submitted by Ahmed Ezz, ...
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Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of faulty breast implant maker Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) has been sentenced to four years in jail after a French court found him guilty of fraud-the maximum sentence for that charge. Mas was also fined ...
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...
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Cybercriminals are increasingly using the “Blackshades” malware program whose source code was leaked three years ago, according to an analysis by Symantec. Blackshades, which Symantec identifies as “W32.Shadesrat,” ...
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Pilot Flying J has been embattled in a lawsuit since mid-April, all of which ended Monday in a settlement of $84.9 million. The money is payment, with interest to about 5,500 carriers that claim to have been cheated by the trucstop chain ...
Six people, including managers of two companies, received jail sentences of two to five years on Wednesday for a chemical leak in east China's business hub of Shanghai. The Jinshan District People's Court handed down first-instance ...
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United Steelworkers (USW) International President Leo W. Gerard released the following statement in response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement that an additional nine Japan-based auto parts producers, along with two ...
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Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been sentenced to two years in prison by a District Court in Sweden for multiple data intrusions, attempted aggravated fraud and aggravated fraud. The verdict against Svartholm Warg and ...
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The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, the court confirmed Tuesday. The green light to extradite Svartholm Warg was given Monday, ...
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A Japanese entrepreneur who founded one of the country's largest web portals and was a national celebrity before being jailed for securities fraud is now free and has launched a firm to develop smartphone apps. Takafumi Horie was once a ...
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Jeremy Hammond, the hacker accused of breaking into global foreign-intelligence company Stratfor's systems and stealing information later posted to Wikileaks, has pleaded guilty to the charges and now faces 10 years in jail. Caught in ...
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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. Jeremy Hammond, 28, of Chicago admitted to participating in more than a half dozen attacks perpetrated ...
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The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document. The U.S. District Court in Maryland on ...
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. Ryan Cleary , 21, Jake Davis, 20, ...
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A 33-year-old man was sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison by a German court for running the torrent site torrent.to between December 2005 and April 2008. He was sentenced by the local court of Aachen on April 30 for the ...
Tags: Sharing Site, Computer Products