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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 287 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: court orders whistleblower site offline us comments Discuss  
A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to post corporate and government documents online anonymously. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 278 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: alleged kiwi botnet mastermind court comments Discuss  
Black sheepAn 18-year-old suspected of masterminding a botnet-fueled international cybercrime network has appeared in a New Zealand court.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 261 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: high court novell case microsoft forward comments Discuss  
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by Microsoft on Monday to halt an antitrust suit that Novell filed against the company for anticompetitive behavior it said harmed its WordPerfect and QuattroPro business in the 1990s. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 224 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn court waves border laptop searches comments Discuss  
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/22/us_laptop_ruling/By Kevin Fayle in San FranciscoThe Register22nd April 2008 Contrary to what some of you may believe, one cannot live in a laptop, according to the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the US.In a recent ruling [1], a three-judge panel of that court determined that border agents could examine the contents of a laptop without reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. As part of that decision, the court rejected the defendant's contention that his laptop read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 190 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: google youtube court battle threatens web comments Discuss  
According to Google, a lawsuit against video-sharing site YouTube is threatening the freedom of the Web. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 189 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: update court finds dell guilty fraud comments Discuss  
Dell was found guilty on Tuesday of fraud, false advertising, deceptive business practices and abusive debt collection practices in a case brought by the New York attorney general. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 184 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: hb opponents challenge bush administration court comments Discuss  
The Bush administration's recent decision to extend the amount of time foreign nationals can work in the U.S. on student visas is being challenged in a federal lawsuit by H-1B visa opponents. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 181 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn calif court resets trade secrets clock comments Discuss  
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202421887158By Zusha ElinsonThe RecorderJune 3, 2008A California appellate court has clarified when the clock starts ticking for trade secret holders to sue third parties who have acquired their stolen intellectual property.Three years after filing a suit over stolen computer source code, the subsequently victorious plaintiff also sued the defendant's customers for having acquired the proprietary information. At question was when the three-year statute of limitations read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 173 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: groups court review laptop searches comments Discuss  
U.S. border agents should not be able to search travelers' laptops without a reasonable suspicion of illegal activity, despite a court ruling allowing such searches, two groups said. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 169 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn highprofile hackers days court comments Discuss  
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=156576By Tim WilsonSite EditorDark ReadingJune 16, 2008Three high-profile cybercrime cases have come to a head in the past week, leaving two hackers headed for jail and a third arguing a pivotal legal appeal.Two of the cases involved sentencing for previously convicted defendants, both of whom were found guilty of using botnets as a primary weapon.On Tuesday, Gregory King (aka Silenz) of Fairfield, Calif., pleaded guilty to two counts of transmitting code to c read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 147 days ago
Via: http://blog.washingtonpost.com | Tags: us supreme court judge data exposed pp comments Discuss  
The Washington Post today ran a story I wrote on a data breach of a local investment firm that exposed the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of some of the Washington area's most powerful attorneys, including Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. I was able to trace the breach back to a former employee who accidentally shared the company's client list while browsing for files on the LimeWire peer-to-peer network. I'm calling attention to...Please click on the title to continue reading this ent read more »
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