The Federal Trade Commission reached an $8.2 million settlement with the operator of a reputed scareware operation. – The purported head of a rogue
antivirus operation has agreed to pay roughly $8.2 million to
the Federal Trade Commission to bring a 2-year-old case to a close.
According to the FTC, Marc D’Souza and his father, Maurice D’Souza, will pay
the money to settle accusations that they profited from…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Friday told a court here that it was against handing over documents of teenager Aarushi Talwar’s murder case to her father Rajesh Talwar as he was a “suspected accused” in the case. In its arguments before a special CBI court here, the investigation agency submitted that Talwar was not [...]
Albanian PM Sali Berisha and Kosovo Albanian Acting President Jakup Krasniqi have accused Council of Europe (CoE) Rapporteur Dick Marty of “racism”.
Berisha and Kransiqi held consultations in Tirana ahead of Marty’s testimony before the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee.
A former contractor accused the FBI of planting backdoors and side-channel key leaking mechanisms into the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework 10 years ago. – An e-mail touched off a bit of a firestorm when a former government
contractor alleged the FBI put backdoors and side-channel key leak
mechanisms in the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework some 10 years ago.
The e-mail, which was posted online here by OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt, came from Gregory …
Angelina Pivarnick may have left her heart at the Jersey Shore. But she’s still got her attitude. The former Jersey Shore guidette — the self-appointed “Kim Kardashian of Staten Island” — has been accused of punching a woman in the face during a wild weekend in Atlantic City, law enforcement officials told TMZ.com this week. [...]
The leader of a five-member gang which had allegedly abducted and raped a 30 year-old call centre employee here, was arrested last night from Haryana. Kamru alias Mobile (25) was arrested from Lakhuwas village in Sohna police station area of Gurgaon. With this, police claimed it has arrested all the five youths. Delhi Police had [...]
The FBI has arrested a Russian man in connection with a spam operation authorities say netted him $465,000 during a six-month period. – The FBI has linked a 23-year-old Russian man to the notorious Mega-D botnet, which once was responsible for one-third of the world’s spam.
According to federal authorities, Oleg Nikolaenko was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to use Mega-D to spam out e-mails for a crew of criminals speci…
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has stayed the execution of a Christian mother sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy. On Friday, Zardari directed the federal minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, to submit a report in this regard within three days, The News reported. The lawyer for the accused, SK Shahid, has already challenged the [...]
A Malaysian has been hit with federal charges for hacking financial institutions and possessing thousands of stolen credit card numbers. – A Malaysian man was charged today by a federal grand jury with hacking into
a Federal Reserve Bank computer network and possessing more than 400,000 credit
and debit card numbers.
Lin Mun Poo, 32, was arrested shortly after his arrival in the United
States Oct. 21 and has been in custody
sinc…
A lawsuit filed by Rembrandt IP Management accuses Seagate Technology and Western Digital of infringing on patents regarding the method of storing data to hard disk drives at high speeds and higher densities. – Rembrandt IP Management filed separate suits against Seagate Technology and Western Digital charging that the two companies violated patents on the method for writing data to hard disk drives at high speeds and high storage densities.
The patents in question concern low-noise toroidal film read/wri…
Facebook is taking accused spammers to court. – Facebook announced it filed three separate lawsuits against spammers this week.
The lawsuits, filed in federal court in San Jose, accuse Steven Richter, Jason Swan, and Max Bounty Inc. of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the CAN-SPAM Act and other state and federal laws. Facebook is seek…
Stanko Subotić aka Cane accused on Wednesday former Interior Minister Dušan Mihajlović of accepting his money.
Subotić is wanted in Serbia on cigarette smuggling charges, and his representatives held a press conference in Belgrade to say that Mihajlović received a quarter of a million euros in 2003.
The goalkeeper and captain of Brazil’s most popular football club, Flamengo, has been arrested over the disappearance and suspected murder of his ex-lover. In a case that’s gripped the soccer and soap loving nation, Bruno Fernandes de Souza is accused of having planned the kidnap and death of model Eliza Samudio, who’s been missing for a month.
Jodie Foster was being accused by the family of a 17-year-old teenager of being rough. As a matter of fact, the boy took pictures of the Oscar winning actress as well as her son outside a movie theater.
According to the spokeswoman of Foster, the young man was like a professional paparazzo. The actress touched the [...]
Opposition SNS leader Tomislav Nikolić says President Boris Tadić should state whether he is “head of the state or president of the Democratic Partyâ€. Nikolić spoke in Belgrade on Monday in reaction to Tadić’s statements, saying they showed his wish to aggravate political relations in the country.
Bruce Beresford-Redman, an Emmy-nominated former producer of a popular reality show Survivor and Pimp My Ride, might have never thought of this day. When his marriage was on the rocks he found his wife dead in Mexico..!!
He was temporarily detained by the Mexican authorities and was asked to stay in the country till the investigation [...]
A student’s parents have sued a Pennsylvania school district, claiming the district used a Webcam on a school-issued laptop to spy on their son. The district says it has now disabled the feature that allowed it to turn on the Webcam remotely.
– A Pennsylvania couple has
accused the local school district of spying on their son by means of a Webcam
on a school-issued laptop.
Michael Robbins and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley,
Penn., filed a lawsuit (PDF) Feb. 11 in
U.S. District Court against the Lower
Merion School District,
in Ardmor…
A grand jury has declined to indict a Muslim chaplain accused of trying to smuggle razor blades and scissors into a New York City jail. The grand jury’s move on Tuesday doesn’t end the case against Imam Zul-Qarnain Abdu-Shahid. But it did force his release from jail without bail under a
A man accused of harassing actress Keira Knightley has been arrested.
Forty-one-year-old Marek Daniluk got busted outside the Comedy Theatre in London’s West End, after a woman phoned police with concerns about the behaviour of the man, reports The Daily Star.
Knightley is currently performing in Moliere’’s ‘The Misanthrope’ at the venue alongside Damian Lewis.
The man from [...]
