Romanian law enforcement authorities have dismantled a criminal group that stole credit card data from foreign companies as part of an operation that resulted in fraudulent transactions totaling$25 million. Officers from the country's ...
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A handful of Swedish websites remained down Friday evening there after hacking group Anonymous threatened earlier this week to attack the nation for a police raid on a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. As of 6:45 ...
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A U.S.federal judge has asked for more information to plan an evidentiary hearing concerning the fate of terabytes of data held in limbo since the shutdown of the Megaupload file-sharing site. U.S.government prosecutors and Kyle Goodwin ...
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One of New Zealand's intelligence agencies spied on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom after it was given erroneous information on his immigration status, believing he was a foreign national. A memorandum filed with Auckland's High Court by ...
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A 20-year-old man surrendered to FBI agents on Tuesday for his alleged hacking of Sony Pictures, one of a wave of attacks executed last year by the hacking collective LulzSec. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, was indicted by a ...
IDG News Service - The U.S. government lost a bid on Thursday to withhold some evidence in advance of the extradition hearing for four Megaupload defendants charged with criminal copyright infringement. The U.S. had asked for a judicial ...
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California's top legal official has put the tech industry on notice that she intends to get tough on digital privacy. Attorney General Kamala Harris said Thursday she is forming a new group within the state's Justice Department, the ...
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Twitter plans to appeal a ruling to turn over the once-public tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protester charged with disorderly conduct, a case the company says threatens the First Amendment rights of its users. A New York Criminal Court ...
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom has offered to do a deal with U.S. prosecutors, who are seeking his extradition from New Zealand to the U.S. "Hey DOJ, we will go to the US. No need for extradition. We want bail, funds unfrozen for lawyers & ...
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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has called for a meeting with home secretary Theresa May after an unprecedented response to his online campaign to block UK student Richard O'Dwyer's extradition to the US. O'Dwyer faces up to ten years in ...
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The High Court has intervened to end a stand-off between the home secretary and Gary McKinnon over the order to have him extradited to face hacking charges in the US. McKinnon's extradition has been stalled since the May 2010 election ...
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Twitter has received more government requests for user information in the first six months of this year than it did in all of 2011, the company reported this week. Taking a page from Google, the micro-blogging site released on Monday its ...
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Investigators raided LG Display's headquarters after Samsung Mobile Display alleged that LG Display stole its technology for large OLED screens, according to a Korean Times article. in the Korean Times article Suwon District Prosecutors ...
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Investigators raided LG Display's headquarters after Samsung Mobile Display alleged that LG Display stole its technology for large OLED screens, according to a Korean Times article. in the Korean Times article Suwon District Prosecutors ...
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Lighting designer Jeremy Coombs has pleaded guilty to one count of fraud at Southwark Crown Court. Coombs,52,has admitted pocketing an advance of GBP 3,500,paid by Antiques expert Rupert Mass,for a new'nano-lighting'system at his Mayfair ...
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