The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action last week against Indian scammers posing as Microsoft technical support has prompted users to relate their tales of woe. Last Wednesday, the FTC hit six criminal operations, freezing assets of 14 ...
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A federal judge has rejected BancorpSouth's plan to use contractual agreements with customers as a shield against liability claims stemming from an online heist of some $440,000 that was illegally wire-transferred from the account of one of ...
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A federal judge is concerned with the lack of oversight Electronic Communications Privacy Act search requests receive. Few people have ever heard of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986, but a recent New York Times ...
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In the latest twist in a saga that has dragged on for seven years, a federal judge on Thursday refused to set aside a $675,000 fine that a jury had imposed on a former Boston University student for illegally downloading 30 songs. In a ...
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As many as 300,000 PCs and Macs will drop off the Internet in about 65 hours unless their owners heed last-minute calls to scrub their machines of malware. According to a group of security experts formed to combat DNSChanger, between a ...
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Oracle redeemed itself this week when it pledged to resume porting its software to HP’s Itanium-based servers, but it should never have pulled that support from a critical platform as it did in March 2011, according to users and ...
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Computerworld-A woman ordered to pay$222,000 for pirating 24 copyrighted songs has taken her fight against the Recording Industry Association of America(RIAA)to the U.S.Supreme Court. In a petition filed Monday,lawyers for Minnesota ...
Computerworld-A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a provision in a just-enacted California state law that requires all registered sex-offenders to immediately turn over the all of their Internet identifiers and the names ...
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Computerworld-A federal judge in Ohio today rejected claims by Ohio Green Party co-chairman Bob Fitrakis that software that was recently installed on vote tabulation machines in more than two-dozen counties in the state,posed a threat to ...
A highly anticipated patent infringement case between Apple and Motorola Mobility was dismissed Monday by a federal court judge in Wisconsin,hours before the trial was due to begin. The two companies were arguing over license rates for ...
SAP has agreed to pay fierce rival Oracle a minimum of$306m(GBP196.6m)in partial damages over copyright infringement,but the total settlement could be as much as$426m(GBP273.8m). The amount includes the$120m(GBP77m)that Oracle said it had ...
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Government-sponsored servers designed to keep DNSChanger-infected PCs and Macs online were switched off earlier today as scheduled,but several major U.S.Internet service providers downplayed problems to their customers. The number of IP ...
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PC World-For the second time this week,sale of an Android-based device made by Samsung has been banned in the United States by a federal judge. On Friday,Judge Lucy Koh barred the sale of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus phone in the United States ...
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A federal court will soon assess damages and lay blame for the massive Deepwater Horizon oil disaster that sent hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, and that killed 11 people, back in April 2010. And BP, ...
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