Neowin News Feed for: Guilty

Former Apple car engineer pleads guilty to allegations of trade secret theft

Usama Jawad — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 12:58:01 +0000

One of the two Apple engineers accused of stealing trade secrets related to the firm's self-driving car project has pleaded guilty. The stolen material included plans for a circuit board. Read more...

Russian antitrust authority finds Apple guilty of monopolistic behavior

Usama Jawad — Sat, 29 Aug 2020 07:36:01 +0000

A Russian antitrust authority has found Apple guilty of monopolistic behavior with its release of iOS 12 back in 2018, which apparently cut off access to some tools and APIs essential to developers. Read more...

Final member of hacking group found guilty for data theft that involved Microsoft and others

Timi Cantisano — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 04:26:01 +0000

Today, the final member of a four member group was found guilty of hacking and data theft. Microsoft, Epic Games and Valve were some of the companies involved. Read more...

Pirate Bay founder judged guilty in hacking case

Usama Jawad — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:14:01 +0000

The founder of Pirate Bay and his accomplice have been found guilty in what is now being called the the biggest hacking case in Danish history. Both could face a maximum of six years in prison. Read more...

Patent infringement, this time Apple is guilty

Andrew Stevenson — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:14:42 +0000

It's been very quiet on the Patent Wars front the past few weeks, with very little noise made since the Apple/HTC deal. But now Apple has been found guilty of infringing three MobileMedia patents. Read more...

The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine

Tom Warren — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:19:25 +0000

The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today. The news first surfaced from founder Peter Sunde who used Twitter to break... Read more...

Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:55:40 +0000

Robert Matthew Bentley, 21, Panama City, Florida, has plead guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud and computer fraud. Bentley was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola, Florida in November 2007. The case... Read more...

SCO guilty of lying about Unix code in Linux in Germany

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:27:49 +0000

In the United States, SCO's Linux/Unix litigation has been stalled out while the company's bankruptcy trial is being dealt with. In Germany, however, several court cases have found SCO Group GmbH, SCO's Germany branch, guilty... Read more...

Contractor Pleads Guilty To Stealing Classified Data

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:21:16 +0000

Jessica Lynn Quintana, a former employee with a contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque, N.M. to stealing classified information from the lab and is now facing... Read more...

Google Not Guilty of Displaying Explicit Images

Wed, 16 May 2007 21:41:27 +0000

Early last year, adult entertainment website Perfect 10 filed a lawsuit against Google for displaying thumbnails and subsequent images from its website, claiming that a portion of its revenue came from selling thumbnails to mobile... Read more...

Four plead guilty to online piracy

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:41:43 +0000

A group of three men have admitted distributing music illegally and another man pleaded guilty to one count of criminal copyrightinfringement. Matthew Howard of Colorado, Aaron Jones of Oregon, ... Read more...

'Rent-a-Zombie' Ringleader Pleads Guilty

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:41:46 +0000

A man who leased networks of infected computers to criminals to carry out denial of service and spam attacks has pleaded guilty and could receive six years in jail. Twenty-year old Jeanson... Read more...

Infineon Executives Guilty of DRAM Price-Fixing

Fri, 03 Dec 2004 19:34:52 +0000

Four executives at German memory vendor Infineon Technologies AG and its U.S. subsidiary have pled guilty to charges of illegally setting prices for PC memory chips, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The sales... Read more...

Infineon found guilty

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:42:55 +0000

RAM maker Infineon have been fined $160 million dollars by the US anti-trust department for illegally fixing prices between 1999 and 2002. Infineon pled guilty, and will be paying the fine off in segments until... Read more...

MSBlast suspect pleads guilty

Thu, 12 Aug 2004 04:01:47 +0000

Jeffrey Lee Parson today pleaded guilt to creating the "MSBlast" variant "MSBlast.B", which caused so may problems for computer users. For those who don't remember the original Blaster worm exploited the DCOM RPC vulnerability... Read more...

Johansen pleads not guilty in DVD appeals case

Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:40:54 +0000

A Norwegian who defeated Hollywood on piracy charges pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in a landmark appeal hearing that the movie industry is anxious to win to protect its lucrative DVD business. ... Read more...

Innocent file-sharers could appear guilty

Thu, 09 Oct 2003 02:47:56 +0000

A research paper highlighting security weaknesses in a popular internet file-sharing network has raised concerns that innocent users could in theory be wrongly accused of sharing copyrighted music. The Recording Industry Association of... Read more...

MSBlast suspect pleads not guilty

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 16:06:05 +0000

Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teen suspected of creating a variant of the destructive MSBlast worm, pleaded not guilty Wednesday in federal court in Seattle to one count of causing damage to a computer. ... Read more...

Web site spoofer pleads guilty, faces jail time

Tom Warren — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:44:22 +0000

A Chicago man pleaded guilty on Sept. 12 to wire fraud in connection with a scheme that used a phony Web site to steal credit card and account information from customers of Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft... Read more...

eBay guilty of patent infringement

Wed, 28 May 2003 15:02:36 +0000

A federal jury on Tuesday found eBay guilty of patent infringement and ordered the online auction giant to pay $35 million in damages. A U.S. district Court jury sided with MercExchange... Read more...

DirecTV mole to plead guilty

Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:37:53 +0000

A 19-year-old University of Chicago student accused of leaking the secrets of DirectTV's most advanced anti-piracy technology to hacker websites has agreed to plead guilty to violating the rarely used 1996 Economic Espionage Act. Igor... Read more...

Welsh Web designer pleads guilty to virus creation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 21 Dec 2002 01:48:06 +0000

A 21-old Welsh Web designer has pleaded guilty to creating and distributing three mass mailer viruses, in a hearing at Bow Street Magistrates Court this morning. Simon Vallor, of Llandudno, North Wales, admitted offences under... Read more...

Elcomsoft not guilty - DoJ retreats from Moscow

Wed, 18 Dec 2002 05:43:16 +0000

Thanks HariSeldon for posting this in our BPN section. The Russian software company which has found itself on trial in an American court was acquitted on all counts of circumventing the DMCA today. ... Read more...

Trainee(!) dishwasher pleads guilty to $80m identity fraud

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 05 Oct 2002 08:19:29 +0000

A 32 year-old former trainee dishwasher (how can you be a trainee dishwasher?) has pleaded guilty to masterminding what investigators believe is the largest identity theft scam ever attempted. Abraham Abdallah, a... Read more...

WorldCom Controller Pleads Guilty

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:54:07 +0000

NEW YORK, Sept. 26 -- WorldCom Inc.'s former controller pleaded guilty today to charges that he manipulated accounting to inflate profits and then tried to cover it up, moving federal prosecutors a step closer in... Read more...

Hacker pleads guilty

Sat, 12 Jan 2002 04:58:28 +0000

A Hacker known as "Konceptor" pleaded guilty to a single charge of breaking into the computer system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, which conducts US nuclear weapons research. Benjamin Troy Breuninger,... Read more...

Guilty Gear X PC demo.

Marcel Klum — Mon, 12 Nov 2001 09:50:04 +0000

Saw this over at the vg-network forums. If you're into cool 2D fighting games then this is something for you. Unfortunately the site is Japanese so a translator may come in handy :)... Read more...