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Intel files $50m suit against insurance firm
News Intel has filed a $50m lawsuit against insurance carrier American Guarantee and Liability Insurance, alleging breach of contract. The alleged breach involves the insurance firm's failure to pay for Intel's legal defence related to antitrust...
[February 2, 2009, 16:32]
Court sides with Microsoft in Sun lawsuit
News Although the Appeals Court agreed with Sun that Microsoft has likely violated its Java contract, it told Whyte to elaborate on why Microsoft's actions constitute copyright infringement rather than breach of contract.
[August 24, 1999, 8:12]
Home Office admits to database breaches
News Three used their systems access privileges to conduct checks that were "not connected to their duties", according to an ID and Passport service spokesman, while in the other breach the staff member "misused data he was entitled to access".
[August 31, 2006, 9:40]
Aussie Kazaa case heads for November trial
News He claimed that the raids executed on the Sharman premises may be in breach of the Telecommunications Act. He also argued that the action was undertaken without the knowledge of the person making the communication, (which is also stipulated as a...
[July 2, 2004, 12:05]
Watchdog: HMRC did breach data laws
News It is clear that there was a breach of data-protection requirements," said Richard Thomas, the information commissioner. After the disclosure of the breach, the government appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers chairman Kieran Poynter to report on the...
[December 18, 2007, 13:54]
MoJ consults on £500k data breach fines
News The Ministry of Justice is conducting a separate consultation, which is looking at custodial sentences for [malicious data breach] offences," said Smith. Data breach figures released by the ICO on Wednesday reveal that the single biggest cause of...
[November 12, 2009, 15:51]
Snooping laws may be illegal
News The proposed RIPA extensions, and similar laws being introduced by other EU member states under an EU framework directive on the retention of communications data, breach human rights regulations because of their scale, according to Privacy...
[October 17, 2003, 10:05]
Dell sued over fraud allegations
News The suit, filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on 14 February, seeks class action status in California and accuses Dell of "bait and switch" practices, false advertising, fraud and deceit in sales and advertising, and breach of contract.
[February 24, 2005, 13:00]
Barracuda Web Site Firewall Protects Against the Top 10 Biggest Web Site Threats
White Papers Today's companies need to increase efforts to protect against a crippling Web site hack or data breach as Web applications and Web site attacks are increasing in frequency and cost to recover customer confidence.
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
FSA nets 28 UK Web scams in one day
News A one day investigation by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and other international watchdogs has identified 28 UK Web sites that are in breach of financial services rules. The one day investigation into Internet scams unearthed 28 sites in...
[July 3, 2001, 7:28]
Online pollster reveals personal data
News A spokesman for the UK's Information Commissioner said that this "almost certainly" contravenes the Data Protection Act, but described it as an "unintentional cock-up" rather than a serious or deliberate breach of the legislation.
[August 27, 2002, 10:12]
Internal attacks blighting banks
News Less than a third (28 percent) of respondents experienced an IT security breach in the last 12 months, a fall of 55 percent since last year. Almost three-quarters of respondents outsource at least one IT job but around one in three fails to conduct...
[June 29, 2005, 10:00]
Australian ISP still battling US copyright claim
News Weaver's email, which cites the date, time and IP address from which the alleged breach was conducted, claims its statements are accurate "under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California and under the laws of the United States.
[February 5, 2003, 9:00]
FBI shuts down fake boarding pass site
News We are certainly concerned with any potential breach in security, particularly at the airports. We will conduct a thorough and complete investigation," Osborne said. A website that let anyone with an internet connection and a printer create fake...
[October 31, 2006, 10:47]
Australians told to ignore SCO's letters
News OSIA's move, its first significant foray into community issues associated with free and open source software, comes as the ACCC continues to investigate a complaint by Open Source Victoria (OSV) -- of which Zymaris is a convenor -- that SCO's...
[May 26, 2004, 9:55]
HP exec hits back at vote critics
News We are vigorously investigating this breach along with others that have occurred in recent weeks and we intend to prosecute these matters to the fullest extent of HP policy and applicable law. However, Wayman defended HP's conduct in the final days...
[April 12, 2002, 11:44]
Judge dismisses antitrust charges against Intel
News With today's dismissal of the federal suit, Intel is left facing only state claims of unfair business practices and breach of contract. Unilateral conduct that may adversely affect another's business situation, but is not intended to monopolise...
[March 14, 2000, 11:13]
Kumar indicted as CA gets charges deferred
News Unless they fall down and breach the agreement, they can go forward and don't have to risk facing crippling fines and a lot of time spent in courtrooms defending the company," Sanders said. This conduct is wrong," Ranieri said.
[September 23, 2004, 12:55]
MP3 site 'just a search engine'
News Bal said ComCen had been told by the lawyer for the record companies, Michael Williams, that a Web site that linked to other sites that hosted the MP3 files was involved in breach of copyright. The procedures to be followed will be laid out in the...
[October 23, 2003, 13:10]
Internal hacking: Stopping the mole within
News Tell them what the consequences are if they breach the code of conduct.it all boils down to the employee buying into your business activity. King encourages managers to conduct culture-climate surveys to determine if there is a 'them against us...
[March 20, 2002, 13:45]
