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Robert Butyka, the 26-year old Romanian hacker known as Iceman, famous for breaching into several NASA-owned servers, was indicted by US prosecutors after Romanian courts sentenced him to three years in prison.
According to Antena3, LA prosecutors want the hacker to face another trial in Los Angeles, where he is cha... |
10 February 2012
04:15 GMT |
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Even though Stratfor took a lot of measures to prevent any misuse of the information Anonymous hackers obtained from them as a result of the hacking operations from December 2011, some of their customers are not content and they filed a lawsuit against the organization demanding more than $50 million (35 million EUR)... |
8 February 2012
07:21 GMT |
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Scams that circulate on social media networks, especially Facebook, are not uncommon, each day users stumbling upon fake ads that promise adult tapes, coupons, funny and outrageous footage, and fabulous prizes. Now, Zuckerberg’s company retaliates by suing a firm that’s suspected of using malicious tactic... |
27 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has been actively investigating the Kelihos botnet case since September when it took it down in collaboration with Kyrus Inc. and Kaspersky Labs. Microsoft has been pursuing new leads in the case in an attempt to hold all those behind the botnet responsible for their... |
24 January 2012
10:21 GMT |
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In a case that may set a controversial precedent, a woman accused of financial fraud was ordered by a court to provide the prosecution incriminatory data stored on her encrypted laptop computer.
According to Wired, Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that the Fifth Amendement is “not implicated... |
24 January 2012
06:19 GMT |
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A few days ago we’ve heard of a complaint being filled at a California court in which Symantec was accused of commercializing useless products that scare consumers into thinking their computers were full of errors. After hearing about the case, the Indian hacker Yama Tough published the Norton Utilities source ... |
14 January 2012
07:26 GMT |
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A Romanian man is charged by a court of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud after he was arrested for running a card-skimming operation involving HSBC automated teller machines (ATMs) in New York.
Laurentiu Iulian Bulat is accused of placing skimming devices at 40 ATMs belonging to the New York branch o... |
7 January 2012
05:46 GMT |
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Today, Microsoft announced that it has filed a suit against Comet Group PLC for allegedly creating and selling counterfeit Windows Vista and Windows XP CDs. The Redmond-based software giant claims that the UK high street tech retailer has created a number of over 94,000 sets of counterfeit Windows Vista and Windows ... |
4 January 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Police arrested a man from East Heaven, Connecticut, after the staff members of a computer repair shop found that he had accessed child abuse websites from his personal computer.
According to EastHeavenPatch, at the beginning of 2011 authorities were informed by the Sherman Avenue computer repair store that they unc... |
28 December 2011
05:42 GMT |
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Apple has sued almost everyone in the mobile industry claiming that companies are infringing various patents it holds in user experience, but one of the most common cases lately is the one against Samsung.The Cupertino-based company has filed complaints against Samsung in various countries around the world, alleging... |
19 August 2011
10:03 GMT |
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Mountain View-based software giant Google has won a legal battle over the Android trademark, the name of the increasingly popular mobile operating system the company launched on shelves about two years ago.The Android trademark suit was filed back in April 2009, and a judge granted Google’s Motion for Summary ... |
22 December 2010
08:16 GMT |
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It seems that developer and publisher Blizzard, the creator of the Diablo series and the World of Warcraft MMO, is not satisfied with banning cheats from Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, even those who only play the single player, and has now taken steps to sue those who have offered hacks and trainers for its real tim... |
18 October 2010
05:20 GMT |
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A lawyer has revealed that one of the most recognizable fans of the Cleveland Browns, who has had his likeness used in Madden 09 without his explicit permission, will resolve a suit he has filed against publisher Electronic Arts in the coming weeks. It's not clear whether he has simply withdrawn his legal action... |
19 October 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Piracy is one of the biggest, if not the very biggest concern of the gaming industry. It's the most physical form of expressing the anarchist inside gamers without constructing home-made bombs and trying to overthrow a government. Some hackers decide to cheat the protections on different software to “stick... |
16 October 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Unlike most legal proceedings of public law suits, Gamefly's battle with the United States Postal Service seems to have taken a dramatic turn of events. The USPS did not seem to show any signs of backing down from the fight, but that was before Gamefly got their hands on some new evidence in the case. The PS was... |
14 October 2009
04:11 GMT |
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It seems that the level of frustration of those affected by problems introduced by the firmware 3.00 update for the PlayStation 3 has reached boiling point. One man from Florida took action against Sony by filing a class action suit against the Japanese console manufacturer alleging that the update had affected his g... |
7 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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It seems that Fight Night Round 4, the rather successful boxing simulator from Electronic Arts, is splitting the world of boxing into two sides. Some of the fighters have supported a law suit from Fighter Inc., an organization that represents the interests of the boxers, saying that the videogame publisher effectivel... |
2 October 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Madden NFL 10 will no longer have legacy teams on the PS2. That's the bad news. The good news is that Hall of Fame players are set to make an appearance. And there's a chance that, if some law suits have their way, this is the last year when we get to see them.Electronic Arts is saying that the PlayStation ... |
20 May 2009
02:33 GMT |
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Electronic Arts, through its EA Sports division, could be on the receiving end of quite a few law suits. And the main reason is, ironically, the very popularity that series like NCAA Football and Madden NFL, which arrive each year complete with likenesses of players, team T-shirts and stadiums modeled after the real ... |
11 May 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Richard Garriott is one of the best known game designers in the world. He is the one who created the Ultima series and provided one of the main characters of Ultima Online, under the name of Lord British.His latest videogame adventure, the futuristic MMO Tabula Rasa, was not as successful, being shut down by NCsoft e... |
8 May 2009
02:34 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it is now suing Activision Blizzard over the amount of royalties that the publisher has to pay as part of a recent settlement. Valve is seeking to have a court get it about half a million dollars, a sum that could be inflated when legal fees are added. Activision Blizzard has also threatened ... |
5 May 2009
02:32 GMT |
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Rather than being busy with providing information related to its videogame releases, publisher Take Two is filling the news space with information related to the law suits that it has managed to settle during the recent few days.Today, the company announced that an agreement was reached with a group of share holders ... |
7 April 2009
13:01 GMT |
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After 40 years of smoking approximately one pack of cigarettes per day, Norma Rose sued the tobacco industry, filing a product liability claim, which argued that producers should use less tar and nicotine in their products. A lower New York State Court ruled in favor of Rose and her husband a while back, but now the ... |
17 December 2008
08:00 GMT |
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What happens when two big publishers have videogames which target the same demographic, depicting pretty much the same race and with similar visual means? Well, the two go to court. THQ, the publisher of Baja: Edge of Control, has filed a law suit with the Central District of California against Activision Blizzard, ... |
28 October 2008
01:22 GMT |
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Intel announced on Friday that it is going through a formal investigation launched by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The company has already faced similar antitrust probes in Europe and Asia. Intel has been accused for a long time of abusing its dominance over the chip market. At this moment, more than 80 percent... |
9 June 2008
08:26 GMT |
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You must have surely heard about Guitar Hero III's sound issues, in the Wii version at least, since the title only manages to output mono sound. That's surely not the "Dolby Pro Logic II surround sound" the box of the title promised all gamers. It appears that this problem bothered Samuel Livingston of San... |
13 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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After big names on the computer industry market encountered problems with the antitrust regulations and the state bodies that were designed to enforce them, it is the turn of another company to face a looming probe. While Intel and Microsoft are the traditional accused parties in just about every antitrust case in th... |
15 September 2007
07:21 GMT |
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One of the biggest hardware acquisitions of this summer was the Acer and Gateway deal that promoted the Asian company Acer to a strong position on the computer market in the United States as it purchased the ailing Gateway, once one of the largest American computer hardware companies. While this acquisition may insti... |
13 September 2007
11:32 GMT |
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Sharp, a Japanese electronics manufacturer specialized in the flat panel displays, accused Samsung and its divisions Samsung Electronics America and Samsung Telecommunications America of infringing five of its patents that are related to flat screen technology. Both of the companies are currently manufacturing and se... |
7 August 2007
09:33 GMT |
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Last week, the world saw Intel charged by the European Commission with unlawful business practices aimed at eroding the market position of its main competitor, AMD. Even if Intel firmly denied all the charges, it still must face the Commission in an open trial and explain its position. The Advanced Micro Devices comp... |
1 August 2007
06:35 GMT |
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Beyonce Knowles is again at the center of a law suit, this time for copyright infringement. And, what is all the more shocking is the fact that the suit was not filed by some no-name in the music industry, but by another R&B star, Des'ree, who claims the bootylicious diva took one of her songs and covered it wit... |
19 April 2007
10:45 GMT |
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