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Oracle Judge Seeks Expert Technology Advice
News A district court judge is seeking to appoint an expert witness or witnesses to aid the court in its review of the US Department of Justice's antitrust lawsuit to block Oracle's proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft.
[March 16, 2004, 9:35]
Expert Undermines Hacking Suspect's Defence
News An expert witness in the case of a teenager accused of accidentally launching a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on a major US port said on Thursday there was no indication that evidence had been planted on the suspect's hard drive.
[October 9, 2003, 15:10]
British Law's Encryption Quagmire
News Without a legal definition to point to, such cases depend on how a judge or jury react to an expert witness' explanation. Neil Barrett of security firm Information Risk Management appeared as an expert witness in the TV equipment case.
[November 19, 1999, 12:29]
Is The Microsoft Trial Over?
News For its first witness, Microsoft rolled out its lone economic expert, considered a cornerstone in any antitrust case. The software maker's first three witnesses -- the heavyweights of Microsoft's defence -- have dug the company into a deep hole...
[February 8, 1999, 11:11]
Tsunami Web Site 'hacking' Trial Delayed
News At his first appearance at Horseferry Road Magistrates court in London back in February, Cuthbert pleaded not guilty and was released on unconditional bail until April pending submission to the court of a report by an IT security expert witness.
[May 18, 2005, 11:30]
Naughton Lawyers Try Role-playing Defence
News She also runs the site Netaddiction and has testified as an expert witness about Internet-related behaviour. The defence was hoping to introduce testimony from an expert witness who would say that as many as two-thirds of all visitors to Internet...
[December 8, 1999, 6:00]
Expert: Windows Can Be Broken Into Parts
News Andrew Appel, the 14th witness in the proceedings to determine a remedy for Microsoft's antitrust violations and a computer science professor at Princeton University, began his testimony here late on Tuesday before a sparsely filled courtroom.
[April 11, 2002, 7:31]
Denial Of Service Attacks Are Legal 'grey Area'
News Judge Grant asked expert witness for the prosecution Paul Overton whether, in his opinion, the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) contained the necessary language to cover DoS attacks caused by unwanted mail, given that the Act came into practice in 1990...
[November 2, 2005, 11:20]
Accused Port Hacker Says Log Files Were 'edited'
Talkback The UK needs to re-evaluate their expert witness evaluation criteria. Does the UK have the equivalent of an amicus curiae brief? To Do List: Someone needs to write the judge in this case and set the record straight.
[October 16, 2003, 0:14]
News Burst: British Law's Encryption Quagmire
News Neil Barrett of security firm Information Risk Management says that when appearing as an expert witness in a recent case concerning the manufacture of illegal cable TV equipment accessing encrypted transmissions, the defence brought into question...
[November 18, 1999, 14:09]
Cyberterrorism A Reality 'in Two Years'
News Speaking at the SC Magazine Conference in London on Thursday, director of information security for Royal Mail David Lacey said that that the world would witness cyberterrorism within two years. Cyberterrorism could become a reality in 2006, a...
[October 21, 2004, 13:45]
Bristol: It's Payback Time
News Bristol witness and financial forensic expert Henry Stotsenberg cited the damage estimate during his court appearance Monday. Microsoft's first witness, senior vice president Jim Allchin, is expected to take the stand on Wednesday.
[June 22, 1999, 9:02]
AMD Files To Learn Intel's Secrets
News The AMD spokesman did not identify the name of the expert witness or the exact nature of the documents. Sunnyvale, California-based AMD has filed a motion with the US District Court of Northern California to compel Intel to produce expert testimony...
[October 25, 2001, 9:06]
Accused Hacker Denies Link To 'elite' Group
News An expert witness for the prosecution last week dismissed Caffrey's claims that his PC had been hijacked. The witness said there was no evidence of an attack and that it was technically impossible for a hacker to remove all traces of having planted...
[October 14, 2003, 16:05]
Clink For DrinkorDie Software Counterfeiters
News But Peter Sommer, a security expert who had earlier been called as an expert witness for the defence, attacked the courts for prosecuting the men with conspiracy charges. Three British men were given prison sentences totalling six years on Friday...
[May 6, 2005, 17:20]
Economist Testifies On Microsoft Remedy
News Shapiro, the second expert witness called by the litigating states, told the court the only appropriate remedial provisions in the case are ones that "affirmatively lower the barriers to entry into the market for PC operating systems.
[April 12, 2002, 7:31]
Oracle Mulls Other Targets
News McAfee, a Justice Department expert witness who reviewed some Oracle customer discount forms that its sales representatives submitted to executives for approval, said Oracle would reduce its price by 13 to 26 percent, if it knew it was competing...
[June 22, 2004, 8:20]
Prosecutors Reverse Stance On Cybercrime Conviction
News Granick pointed out that the technical issues of the case couldn't be sufficiently explored because McDanel was not allowed an expert witness to refute Tornado's testimony. For example, a witness who would have testified that 5,600 email messages...
[October 17, 2003, 11:30]
FSF: Microsoft's Attack On EC Is 'outrageous'
News We were forced to witness years of delays, stalling and playing for more time during which Microsoft has made no attempt to allow interoperability and competition with its competitors," he said. The Free Software Foundation Europe expressed outrage...
[February 17, 2006, 10:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Tons of expert witness testimony that there was no evidence of this having happened couldn't counter the proposition that it might have done. Expert jurors might have had a different view of the balance of probabilities, but you get to be tried by...
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
