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In an embarrassing leak, Facebook has been shamed for hiring top public relations firm Burson-Marsteller to spread anti-Google stories around the internet. Burson encouraged several influential bloggers to comment on Google’s privacy invasion, and even...

Tim Schiesser · May 12, 2011 · Hot! with 26 comments

Be careful your product lives up to what you advertise it to be and be careful it does what you say it will do; that's the lesson that many tech companies are learning the hard...

Steven Parker · Apr 3, 2008 · Hot! with 79 comments

The servers of OiNK.cd - one of the most popular private BitTorrent trackers - are raided and the admin, a 24-year-old man from Middlesbrough, is arrested. The British and the Dutch police both contributed to...

· Oct 23, 2007 · Hot! with 23 comments

The Association for the Copyright of Computer Software, an anti-piracy consortium based in Japan, announced that the owner of popular Japanese video-game website Gameonline was arrested today by police in the city of Fukuoka on...

Marcel Klum · May 19, 2004 with 1 comment

Big banks conned big time in dodgy loan and credit card applications Six fraudsters were jailed for a total of 15 years after the National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) uncovered their...

Darren Bolton · Nov 25, 2003 with -1 comments

Scottish engineering company Norson Services has been fined Â£12,000 for using unlicensed software following an anonymous tip-off. The company is the latest in a string of high-profile names, including House of Fraser and...

· Jul 23, 2002 with -1 comments

Telstra (the largest Australian telco) has confessed that a ZDNet Australia survey which questions whether the telco's Internet service provides value for money was rigged by someone within its ranks, just days after its ramped...

· Jan 25, 2002 with -1 comments