A Texas IT services firm has been indicted by federal authorities for using H-1B visa workers to create an inexpensive "as needed" labor force. A multi-count indictment filed last month charged that Dibon Solutions of Carrollton, Texas ...
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Megaupload lost a bid on Friday to see a trove of evidence held by U.S. prosecutors prior to extradition proceedings expected to begin later this year in New Zealand. The country's Court of Appeal rejected two lower court rulings from ...
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Skeptical consumers, take heed: If you receive a notice that your personal data has been breached, pay attention and take free self-help steps to protect yourself from identity fraud. Data-breach notifications have become an increasingly ...
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Logicalis has agreed to acquire four European subsidiaries of the defunct computer services company 2e2 for €24m (£20.7m). The managed services provider will acquire the Spanish and Irish systems integration businesses, which ...
The horse meat scandal has dominated the media in recent weeks. From sensationalist tabloid headlines to Twitter gags, discussion on the topic has been widespread. It all started in January after traces of horse meat were found in ...
The largest bitcoin exchange in the world will have a presence in the U.S. starting next month, a move intended to make it easier for people in the U.S. and Canada to buy the virtual currency. The exchange, called Mt. Gox, is working with ...
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Mike Lynch, the former CEO of Autonomy, has stoked the fire against HP in his first on-stage interview since the war of words between his former company and its acquirers began. HP shares up amid signs of confidence in restructuring ...
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Bust computer services company 2e2 outsourced large amounts of the data it was managing for clients to third-parties, raising question marks over the due diligence that companies need to perform before putting data and applications "in the ...
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The boss of the world’s biggest food company Nestlé, Paul Bulcke has blamed the horsemeat scandal on a criminal minority, who threatened to undermine trust between consumers and the food industry. Nestlé boss Paul ...
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Despite the usual industry hype over NFC (near field communication) at MWC this year, SAP's SVP of mobile solution management, Nick Brown, still believes the touch data technology is overhyped. "I think NFC is interesting, but it's just ...
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The founder of hacking group Lulzsec, Sabu, has had his sentence postponed in order to continue working with the FBI. Sabu - real name Hector Xavier Monsegur - encouraged Lulzsec members to hack websites including those of the CIA, ...
HMRC is trawling the internet, including social media and other websites in which people share information, in a bid to find potential evidence of tax fraud that it can feed into its new Connect data warehouse. Although HMRC is reluctant ...
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According to a new report from Gartner, hackers are adapting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and combining these with social engineering tactics to try and infiltrate banks. The report, called Arming Financial and E-Commerce ...
The US Federal Trade Commission said HTC agreed "to develop and release software patches to fix vulnerabilities found in millions of HTC devices." No financial penalty against the company was announced. The FTC said it investigated ...
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Insurance software house CDL has introduced new quotes solution, featuring Experian's Delphi for Insurance (DFI) risk score. Available through the CDL enrichment hub, the new solution has been introduced to its broker community for all ...