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Evidence of piracy allegedly destroyed
News The music industry is urgently seeking a court hearing after being advised by lawyers for Australian universities involved in legal action over alleged online music piracy that evidence subject to a court order has been destroyed, a piracy...
[July 25, 2003, 9:57]
Microsoft 'destroyed evidence' in patent case
News Burst.com, a streaming media software company, on Monday filed a pretrial motion with a US District Court in Baltimore asking the judge to find Microsoft has destroyed evidence and to instruct a jury to take that into consideration once the...
[November 19, 2004, 7:40]
Evidence of piracy allegedly destroyed
Talkback It's about time the public stood up and made themselves heard. I know that the protest have been done and I'm not a fan of protests cos I thin it's just a lot of tree huggin hippy cr*p that people jump on cos they think it's cool.
[October 29, 2003, 18:10]
Microsoft 'destroyed evidence' in patent case
Talkback If Microsoft could finish everything within 30 days this might be a good policy of ILM, or Information Lifecycle Management. For example, every customer support case should be closed or every security patch should be released in 30 days.
[November 19, 2004, 18:05]
Microsoft 'destroyed evidence' in patent case
Talkback As most email programs automatically save "sent mail", wouldn't this mean that Burst.com [and other companies] would [potentially] have the missing emails - and as they have the Microsoft replies it could show the entire conversations?
[November 19, 2004, 11:03]
Army deploys PC forensics technology in Iraq
News The British Army's Land Information Assurance Group (LIAG) -- a specialist TA unit that provides IT services -- has been deployed in Iraq since the end of the war in order to analyse abandoned and partially destroyed electronic media.
[September 29, 2003, 15:45]
Judge rules Oracle withheld lawsuit evidence
News Oracle deliberately destroyed or withheld chief executive Larry Ellison's emails and failed to preserve audio recordings sought as evidence in a class-action lawsuit filed against the software maker in the US, a federal judge has ruled.
[September 4, 2008, 8:48]
Accounting rules: you must keep e-mails
News However, according to Sarbanes-Oxley, if your network administrator is instructed to overwrite the tapes, then your company knowingly allows potential evidence to be destroyed. Also, the storage type may vary as long as one can produce the evidence.
[March 21, 2003, 10:45]
Should a security professional have a legal background?
Blog Comment A world-class business which was arguably destroyed by the mishandling of its data retention policy. After all, every legal case or external or internal investigation has to collect, organise, understand, evaluate and present the evidence.
[August 27, 2008, 17:00]
Companies rethink customer data privacy
News Nevertheless, some companies that have been cooperating with authorities investigating the 11 September suicide hijackings that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon are now reviewing their actions for possible privacy...
[October 2, 2001, 14:30]
Cloud Computing & The Impact On Digital Forensic Investigations
Blog The likelihood therefore, of the data being removed, overwritten, deleted or destroyed by the perpetrator in this case is low. The initial thought is that CC vendors cannot ensure that data which could be used as evidence will be complete...
[March 6, 2009, 7:34]
Jane Wakefield: I spy with my little eye
News It has always insisted that the clause in RIP forcing defendants to prove they had innocently lost keys rather than maliciously destroyed them did not reverse the burden of proof. Surely there was some assignation with a senator or late night visit...
[July 3, 2000, 10:10]
Tuesday: SCO plays King Kong
Blog But today's news, that SCO has revoked IBM's AIX licence and wants all copies of the software destroyed, is just breathtaking. I've been avoiding the SCO Versus The World story: there's no shortage of outraged punditry to choose from, and in the...
[June 20, 2003, 17:11]
Phone phreaker avoids prison after running up £106,000
News Despite running up a huge phone bill, Spiby could not receive a prison sentence because he had destroyed incriminating evidence when the police finally called at his house. A British telephone phreaker who ran up £106,000 worth of free telephone...
[October 12, 1999, 10:35]
Intel loses antitrust emails
News Through what appears to be a combination of gross communication failures, an ill-conceived plan of document retention and lacklustre oversight by outside counsel, Intel has apparently allowed evidence to be destroyed," AMD said in a filing on...
[March 6, 2007, 8:13]
Redbus boss begs customers to stay
News Users remain to be convinced, and Redbus is likely to receive claims for compensation for damage and downtime from users whose kit was destroyed by a power spike during the problem, and some of which took up to 27 hours to repair.
[March 7, 2005, 15:20]
Deletion software tribute to ex-chancellor Kohl
News In one of Germany's most high profile investigations it was discovered that files concerning the privatisation of East Germany as well as arms sales to Saudi Arabia were destroyed days after Kohl was removed from office in 1998.
[June 29, 2000, 16:09]
Attorney: Naughton was sent 'unsolicited' child porn
News Margolin said FBI agents destroyed Naughton's "psychological balance" when they failed to tell him that the woman he arranged to meet was really a decoy. Judge Edward Rafeedie will rule Tuesday on a defense motion to suppress Naughton's written...
[November 30, 1999, 9:27]
Naughton: Child porn 'unsolicited'
News Margolin said FBI agents destroyed Naughton's "psychological balance" when they failed to tell him that the woman he arranged to meet was really a decoy. Judge Edward Rafeedie will rule Tuesday on a defence motion to suppress Naughton's written...
[November 30, 1999, 15:26]
Wanadoo closes serious security hole
News The forum owner assured ZDNet UK that the "6,986 files" he managed to download from the exposed server will now be destroyed. There is no evidence as yet that customer information was obtained and misused by any third party.
[May 19, 2006, 16:55]
