The Humane Society of the United States recently ranked Colorado's animal-protection laws among the top 10 for overall effectiveness. But, this past Friday, the Weld County Prosecutor's Office determined that timing provisions in those laws ...
ArthroCare Corp. of Austin, TX will pay $30 million to settle securities fraud-related charges with the U.S. Department of Justice, the DOJ recently announced. Federal prosecutors say shareholders lost more than $400 million in mid-2008 ...
Tags: Surgical Instruments, Arthrocare, Fraud Case Securities
The FBI has offered large rewards for information that could help them catch a clutch of alleged cyber-criminals. They include an El Salvadoran national accused of selling a Trojan designed to spy on husbands or wives believed by their ...
Brazil heralded this week's auction of a huge oil field as a vindication of its state-dominant approach to its oil riches, but some industry experts say the country must modify its rules before new fields are sold for Brazil to achieve its ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Italy's Riva Acciaio is starting to discuss with the judicial custodian on the issue of whether they are able to resume the mills' operations. Riva Acciaio plants are under examination. The Italian steel federation, Federacciai, requested ...
Tags: Construction, steel
HTC share price plunged to an intraday low of NT$146 (US$5) before closing down NT$10 or 5.75% at NT$147.50 on September 2 as investors dumped the company's shares on concerns of a possible leak of its forthcoming new interface in an ...
Tags: HTC, Trade Secrets
Taiwanese prosecutors are investigating three of HTC's employees for stealing trade secrets to sell to Chinese firms and fraud, according to recent reports. HTC's research and development centre as well as the suspects' offices and homes ...
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South Korean firm Samsung has been taken to court in Brazil for claims of violating labour laws. In a legal suit filed on Friday and now made public, prosecutors have accused the company of making its employees work long, tiring shifts ...
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A proposed change to U.S. law that would allow state attorneys general to hold websites liable for content posted by users is a "dangerous path," a group of tech trade groups and legal scholars said Wednesday. A proposal by a group of ...
Tags: Internet'safe Harbor'Law
Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bill that would prevent the Department of Justice from prosecuting people for violating terms of service for Web-based products, website notices or employment agreements under the Computer Fraud and ...
Tags: Computer Fraud, Aaron's Law, CFAA
Frustrated by their difficulty prosecuting cases involving online content that is illegal or damaging to individuals, a group of state attorneys general are taking action. They are circulating a draft letter that they plan to send to the ...
Tags: Safe Harbor, Online Content
Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue offered only short answers in testimony Thursday in federal court when questioned by federal prosecutors trying to solidify their case that Apple, along with five of the largest book publishers, worked ...
Tags: Apple, E-Book Antitrust Trial, Eddy Cue
U.S. federal prosecutors charged eight people on Wednesday in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud that siphoned money from hacked accounts at banks and financial institutions, laundered it and sent it overseas. The cover page ...
Tags: Cybercrime, US
Computerworld - A federal judge in Wisconsin has ordered a suspect in a child porn investigation to either provide prosecutors with the passwords to several encrypted storage devices of his that are thought to contain incriminating evidence ...
Tags: Decryption, Computer Products
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 ...
Tags: Computer Products, software