HP said in a legal filing Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating its $10.3 billion acquisition of enterprise search company Autonomy, which HP alleges inflated its value through accounting tricks. HP also said it ...
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U.S. authorities have charged a former research analyst at a financial services firm with insider trading offenses related to the 2009 acquisition of software vendor SPSS by IBM. Australian Trent Martin, 33, is charged with one count of ...
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Driller Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in fines and penalties and to plead guilty to one count of violating the Clean Water Act in connection with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the US ...
A man from Michigan was arraigned in a U.S. federal court on Thursday on charges of mail fraud and selling counterfeit software worth over US$1.2 million that he purchased from China and Singapore, the U.S Department of Justice said ...
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Two Romanian men have pleaded guilty to participating in a $10 million scheme to hack into the computers of hundreds of Subway restaurants in the U.S. and steal payment card data, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Iulian Dolan, 28, of ...
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Three federal agencies and a group of state attorneys general have filed more than 70 civil and criminal cases against defendants offering allegedly bogus business opportunities, with some of the defendants offering to help customers set up ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom could violate the terms of his bail, or face new criminal charges, if he launches a new file-sharing and storage service as planned, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a court filing this week. Dotcom, ...
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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in two cases with potentially broad implications to technology users, one reviewing whether consumers can resell copyright-protected products they have purchased and the second challenging ...
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IDG News Service - The U.S.-based Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized new cybercrime legislation that went into effect Wednesday in the Philippines, which has sparked protests over its heavy-handed approach to speech on the internet. ...
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Lawyers for Megaupload filed another motion on Wednesday asking a federal court to dismiss its criminal case, continuing its argument that the company can't be served a summons since it was headquartered outside the U.S. Megaupload wants ...
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U.S. law enforcement surveillance of email and other Internet communication has skyrocketed in the last two years, according to data obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The number of so-called pen register and trap-and-trace ...
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A judge has approved an e-book price-fixing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three book publishers. Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in an order dated Wednesday, ...
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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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Two U.S. agencies have seized 686 websites accused of selling counterfeit and illegal medicines as part of an international crackdown on online sales of fake drugs. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security ...
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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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