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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The Indian offshoring giant Infosys ran a "full-throated campaign of retaliation" against employees to deter them from cooperating with federal authorities investigating visa fraud, according to a new lawsuit. This allegation is made in ...
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Oracle is appealing a $306 million settlement in the TomorrowNow corporate-theft case against German competitor SAP, according to court documents. The Redwood Shores, California, business software company said in a filing on Friday that ...
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The Iranian government appears to have blocked access to Google’s search engine and Gmail webmail service from inside Iran, according to Internet users there. A security researcher going by the Twitter handle of @0xal reported that ...
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Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national energy company, said on Sunday it had repaired 30,000 workstations infected with a malicious virus earlier this month. The eighth largest refiner in the world said its main internal networks were ...
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Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
Microsoft has uncovered a vulnerability in the PC supply chain that allows hackers to pre-install malware-infected copies of Windows onto new machines. As a result, the company has received approval from a federal court to strangle a ...
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Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom's lawyers have appeared in Auckland High Court this morning, seeking relief and reparation from the government over what has been deemed an illegal search and seizure of Dotcom's property. Last week chief ...
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Microsoft has won a battle to permanently disrupt a haven for the Nitol botnet that it discovered within an Internet domain controlled by a Chinese ISP. The company has signed a private settlement that Peng Yong and Changzhou Bei Te Kang ...
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The problem of ransom malware has reached epidemic proportions and could be extracting fraudulent payments from as many as 3 percent of victims, a Symantec report has calculated. In a world already afflicted by botnets, banking Trojans ...
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Reuters reports that Kurdistan has begun shipping oil to international markets in independent export deals that some see as paving the way to greater Kurdish autonomy. The move is likely to further enrage the central government in ...
Tags: Ali al-Dabbagh, Ashti Hawrami, KRG, Kurdistan, oil contracts, oil exports
The amount of mobile Android malware has surged this year, from a count of 30,000 malware specimens in June to almost 175,000 last month, according to Trend Micro’s Security Roundup report for the third quarter of this year. ...
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Oracle is appealing a US$306 million settlement in the TomorrowNow corporate-theft case against German competitor SAP, according to court documents. The Redwood Shores, California, business software company said in a filing on Friday that ...
Tags: Corporate theft case, highlightedpost, Oracle, SAP, settlement
Reuters reported that South Africa's gold output nearly halved in October from the same period last year highlighting the impact of a wave of wildcat strikes that swept the sector. Data showed that gold production in South Africa has ...
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SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, claiming that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. “We recently spent time talking with ...
Tags: SAP, software maintenance, software, renewal