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Court dismisses charges against HP's Dunn
News The three other remaining defendants — former HP attorney Kevin Hunsaker; private detective Ronald DeLia; and Matthew DePante of data-brokering company Action Research Group — pleaded no contest to a count of fraudulent wire communications at...
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
Microsoft knocks legality of Lindows' claim site
News In a letter sent to the software seller on Friday and reprinted in a Lindows announcement on Monday, Microsoft attorney Robert Rosenfeld said that Lindows' MSfreePC site includes false and misleading information and encourages filing of fraudulent...
[September 30, 2003, 10:00]
Expect more stock option cases, warn Feds
News Currently, more than 100 companies, largely from the technology sector, are under investigation by the SEC for possible fraudulent reporting of stock option grants to their top executives, said Linda Thomsen, director of the SEC's enforcement...
[September 7, 2006, 9:55]
Porn spammers to face jail in US
News The Bush administration on Tuesday urged Congress to enact a new law criminalising pornographic and fraudulent spam. We at the department believe the legislation addresses the most difficult types of email to address, and that is the fraudulent and...
[July 9, 2003, 13:27]
Major online credit card theft exposed
News The credit union source said that fraudulent charges have subsequently appeared on some of the accounts that were compromised, although it is impossible to definitively link the fraud to the theft. Banks and credit card companies often point out...
[March 17, 2000, 12:37]
Criminal charges filed in HP case
News The five face four felony charges: fraudulent wire communications, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit those three crimes. The complaint filed by Lockyer in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleges that the...
[October 5, 2006, 8:50]
Concern grows about Bulldog's broadband service
Talkback They are atrocious.inept to the point of fraudulent - they know they cannot offer the service but they still advertise and take orders. I would happily join a US style class action against them. In my book that's obtaining money by deception.
[February 14, 2006, 14:30]
BSkyB sues EDS for £709m
News This trial is happening because EDS made fraudulent representations to secure a contract from BSkyB and failed to deliver its contractual obligations," a Sky spokesperson said. The legal action relates to EDS's role as a supplier for BSkyB's...
[October 17, 2007, 13:59]
Lindows backdoor slammed on Microsoft claims
News The software maker also said it needed traditional paper-based verification in order to help eliminate fraudulent claims and to keep other software vendors from attempting to cash in on the settlement.
[January 14, 2004, 10:00]
Google agrees click fraud settlement
News Currently, advertisers have 60 days to seek a credit for clicks they believe are fraudulent. Arkansas, accused the defendant search engines of charging advertisers for clicks on online advertisements that were fraudulent or done in bad faith and...
[March 9, 2006, 8:20]
Laptops containing police payroll data stolen
News We believe the risk of staff members falling victim to either fraudulent activity or identity theft is minimal," said the Metropolitan Police in a statement. However, the theft is sufficiently serious that UK fraud prevention service CIFAS, payment...
[November 22, 2006, 10:59]
UK ISPs join fight against spammers
News This followed a worldwide sweep of spam and fraudulent emails where agencies analysed a sample of 138,904 spam emails blocked by filters. LINX, which claims to be the world's largest group of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), has joined the London...
[March 14, 2005, 11:40]
Ministers blamed over £30m ID fraud
News The government has come under fire after it emerged ministers have known for months about the flaw used for £30m of fraudulent online tax credit claims. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) was warned about the flaw more than six months ago but only...
[December 6, 2005, 7:55]
Small firms and consumers 'complacent about security'
News In an as-yet-unreleased Get Safe Online survey of 627 people, representing SMEs and consumers, more than a quarter were either not aware of phishing scams, or were unsure of how to protect themselves from being lured to fraudulent Web sites.
[June 21, 2006, 12:25]
Online advertising versus security: Where will the conflict end?
News The dirty truth is that no one can really pinpoint the true amount of fraudulent hits generated by "click-through" and "autosurf" programs, which artificially inflate advertising numbers. And while advertisers continue to try to stop fraud and...
[August 11, 2006, 13:55]
HP's Dunn surrenders to authorities
News Weeks after being inducted into a hall of fame for standout businesspeople in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dunn was booked on charges of fraudulent wire communication, wrongful use of computer data, identity theft and conspiracy to commit those...
[October 6, 2006, 8:50]
Florida launches $24m spam suits
News The state said the email campaigns distributed by the two men advertised more than 75 Web sites that engaged in fraudulent or illegal business activities, including unauthorised sales of pharmaceuticals and cigarettes and services for illegal...
[April 5, 2005, 9:45]
Online exchange for phished details exposed
News A security company has claimed to have uncovered an online exchange for credit-card data obtained by fraudulent means. Finjan said in a Tuesday statement that the Blogspot-hosted, SellCVV2 website was "promoting the sale of fraudulent credit-card...
[March 27, 2008, 16:20]
Hackers steal 40 million credit card numbers
News She noted that Discover Card holders would not be liable for any fraudulent transactions, should they occur. As with MasterCard and Discover, Visa noted that card users are not responsible for fraudulent transactions.
[June 20, 2005, 9:10]
Yahoo appoints click fraud tsar
News The rate of fraudulent clicks, those designed only to run up charges to the advertiser, is a "subset" of that total discard rate, he said. Last month, Google said it would give advertisers more information on how much they are saving by filtering...
[March 22, 2007, 9:24]
