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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Imagine processing massive amounts of video data from surveillance cameras and rapidly churning out usable and reliable information on pick-pockets, drunken hooligans, criminals or even terrorists. Can authorities track a suspect ...
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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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An industry group launched on Tuesday will guide a massive upgrade of the U.S. payment card system to a new platform designed to prevent card fraud. The EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa) Migration Forum will coordinate efforts to enable the ...
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The Olympic Games in London have sparked interest from fraudsters, with a raft of sites supposedly offering live video streams of events, according to security vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro called out on Sunday more than a dozen sites ...
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British American Tobacco has deployed automatic data extraction tools on its SAP environment to free up auditor time. David Barkhausen, senior IT auditor at British American Tobacco (BAT), spoke on the extraction of SAP data for audit ...
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Autonomy founder and former CEO Mike Lynch has written an open letter to HP calling for immediate and specific explanations to the allegations HP has made about the software company. HP bought UK software company Autonomy for $11.7bn in ...
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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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Major high street banks are planning to impose new terms and conditions on customers that would make them squarely responsible for credit and debit card fraud. Further reading Seven-year glitch earns Bank of Scotland 4.2m fine Banks' IT ...
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The UK Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested three people in connection to using ransomware, which security experts say poses a threat to businesses as well as consumers. Ransomware is malicious software that is inadvertently ...
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Many customers lost $1,000s of dollars - don't let this happen to you. Learn how to keep your eye out for fraud software resellers. SALT LAKE CITY, UT, September 29, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- We first learned about Software Media Express ...
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Recently I had a comment on my first Uniball Signo 207 review regarding the drying time for this ink on different papers. When I went back and looked at the review, I realized that I never did any kind of test to see how quickly these pens ...
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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 perplexing risk has emerged for parents, as kids are drawn into chat rooms, online commerce, and submitting private data to join groups of "friends" they have never met, undermining traditional safety precautions of American families. ...
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Experian has announced an international partnership with iovation, the Device Reputation Authority, to further enhance Experian's global fraud prevention capabilities. Iovation's advanced device recognition software, dynamic referencing and ...
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