IDG News Service - Get your conspiracy theories ready: Two founders of The Pirate Bay were due to speak at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, but didn't show up. The 3 p.m. speaking slot for Peter ...
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The U.S. is trying to erect a national regime of secrecy and obfuscation where any government employee revealing sensitive information to a media organization can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment, or for espionage, and the ...
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A 30-year-old Phoenix man was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in prison for using botnets and selling access to them, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Joshua Schichtel, allegedly connected to a group of hackers who used ...
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Swedish authorities now suspect Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg of serious fraud and another data intrusion in addition to the alleged hacking of IT company Logica that led to his arrest, public prosecutor Henrik Olin said ...
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The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the now-defunct hacking group LulzSec in connection with a breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer systems. The 20-year-old Raynaldo Rivera surrendered to US authorities after a ...
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Electronic waste recycling firm Executive Recycling has been convicted of multiple crimes,including environmental violations related to illegal disposal of e-waste overseas,mail and wire fraud,and smuggling and obstruction,the ...
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A former programmer for Goldman Sachs has been charged again with pilfering sensitive source code despite his successful appeal in April of his federal court trial outcome. Sergey Aleynikov, a 42-year-old dual citizen of Russia and the ...
The operator of a mutual fund has pleaded guilty in U.S. court to charges that he operated a $13 million scheme to sell shares of Facebook and Groupon stock before their initial public offerings. John Mattera, who served as chairman of ...
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AU Optronics was fined $500 million by a court in San Francisco on Thursday, and two of its former executives were fine and sentenced to three-year prison terms in connection with an LCD price-fixing conspiracy, the Department of Justice ...
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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,the U.S.Department of Justice said. Shiu Lung Leung,AU Optronics'former senior manager ...
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A garlic smuggler who resided in the UK and was sentenced to six years in prison for evading tax has gone on the run. Murugasan Natarajan, 57, who owned the London-based Perfect Imports & Exports company, was found with around 7,000kg ...
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By John Lee. A U.S. Marine could face a maximum of 20 years in custody for accepting $150,000 in bribes from contractors while stationed in Iraq. Associated Press reports that 36-year-old Staff Sgt. Gilbert Mendez, who worked as a ...
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Wooden fish is a percussion instrument made of a hollow wooden block originally used by Buddhist priest to beat rhythm when chanting scriptures. These are two kinds of wooden fish: one is round in shape with scales carved on it. ...
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The £1.4bn losses caused by a rogue trader at Swiss bank UBS could have been avoided had a computer used to detect unauthorised trading been more effective, according to the Financial Services Authority (FSA). The FSA has fined UBS ...
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Romanian national Manole Razvan Cernaianu,known online as TinKode,received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle,NASA,the U.S.Army and the U.S.Department of Defense and was ordered to pay ...
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