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Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty

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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...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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Infineon found guilty

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Hacker pleads guilty

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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,...

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