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Report: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure increase

...on critical infrastructure companies are on the rise, with a jump in extortion attempts and malware designed to sabotage systems, such as Stuxnet, according to... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Anonymous activists release PCAnywhere source code

...the 'Sam Thomas' emails came from a fake account to investigate the "extortion" attempt."The communications with the person(s) attempting to extort the payment... Read more

7 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Symantec offered hackers $50k in source code sting

...on 14 January. Image credit: CNET News An email exchange revealing the extortion attempt posted to Pastebin on Monday shows a purported Symantec employee named... Read more

7 February, 2012 by Stephen Musil
Readers vent fury at data-roaming charges

Readers vent fury at data-roaming charges

The fees levied by UK operators for data use abroad are 'pathological price gouging', readers have told ZDNet UK, with many saying they avoid turning on the mobile internet while travelling Read more

30 March, 2011 by David Meyer
Software patents are legalised <endeca_term>extortion</endeca_term>

Software patents are legalised extortion

...Reality of the software patents system Software patents, as practised, are legalised extortion. Someone brings a product to market, born from their own minds, built... Read more

30 October, 2011 by Mike Lee
Adobe move promotes piracy

Adobe move promotes piracy

...audience.That audience now has three choices. It can pay Adobe its extortion fee, thus encouraging the future use of security flaws as marketing levers... Read more

11 May, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Hackers hold bank to ransom over stolen data

...Computer Crime Unit in Brussels and local police in Liege of the extortion attempt. Up to 3,700 customers and brokers may have been affected... Read more

4 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner
Should software be patentable? That's the wrong question to ask

Should software be patentable? That's the wrong question to ask

Marty Goetz — the man granted the first software patent in 1968 — says a true invention implemented in hardware is equally patentable if implemented in software Read more

29 October, 2011 by Marty Goetz

Anonymous hacker fails to act on Norton code threat

...for the destruction of the code, while Symantec characterised the negotiations as "extortion", saying the email exchange was conducted by law enforcement. Shortly after negotiations... Read more

8 February, 2012

McAfee warns of dangers to utility systems in 2012

...will take advantage of this gap in 2012, possibly with blackmail or extortion included. For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see McAfee predicts... Read more

28 December, 2011 by Rachel King
Pioneer Goetz rebuts software patent critics

Pioneer Goetz rebuts software patent critics

Marty Goetz — the man granted the first software patent in 1965 — wades back into the intellectual-property debate with more views on why software should be patentable Read more

17 December, 2011 by Marty Goetz

Cybercrime costs the UK £27bn a year

...include intellectual property (IP) theft (excluding the music industry), espionage, fiscal fraud, extortion, online theft, online fraud, identity theft, data loss and scareware. The report... Read more

17 February, 2011 by Tom Espiner
Around the World in 80 Scams: an Essential Travel App 1.0

Around the World in 80 Scams: an Essential Travel App 1.0

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8 February, 2012
Young Stalin (by Simon Sebag Montefiore) 2.4.2

Young Stalin (by Simon Sebag Montefiore) 2.4.2

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22 January, 2012
The Idiot (by Fyodor Dostoevsky) 2.4.2

The Idiot (by Fyodor Dostoevsky) 2.4.2

...society more concerned with wealth, power, and sexual conquest than Christian ideals. Extortion, scandal, and murder follow, testing the wreckage of human misery to find... Read more

22 January, 2012

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