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Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents

Nov 2, 2009
A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. The first-of-its...

Time Warner Cable Exposes 65,000 Customer Routers to Remote Hacks

Oct 20, 2009
A vulnerability in a Time Warner cable modem and Wi-Fi router deployed to 65,000 customers would allow a hacker to remotely access the device’s administrative menu over the internet, and potentially change the settings to intercept traffic, acc...

New Malware Re-Writes Online Bank Statements to Cover Fraud

Sep 29, 2009
New malware being used by cybercrooks does more than let hackers loot a bank account; it hides evidence of a victim’s dwindling balance by rewriting online bank statements on the fly, according to a new report. The sophisticated hack uses a Tr...

Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google

Sep 21, 2009
A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. According to a court document in the case, in August a customer of ...

'The Analyzer' Pleads Guilty in $10 Million Bank-Hacking Case

Aug 25, 2009
Ehud Tenenbaum, aka “The Analyzer,” quietly pleaded guilty in New York last week to a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks. ...

Mistrial in Case of Hate Blogger Charged With Judge Threats

Dec 7, 2009
A federal judge declared a mistrial Monday in the case of a notorious New Jersey hate blogger charged in June with threatening to kill judges. According to court documents, after a three-judge panel of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit of Appeals...

TSA Leaks Sensitive Airport Screening Manual

Dec 7, 2009
Who needs anonymous sources when the government is perfectly capable of leaking its own secrets? Government workers preparing the release of a Transportation Security Administration manual that details airport screening procedures badly bungled their...

Napster Trial Celebrates Decade Anniversary

Dec 7, 2009
I have a Monday story in Wired.com’s This Day in Tech blog reviewing the Napster litigation, 10-years-old today. “The Napster trial was about big money. Along the way, the case mutated into a cannibalizing feeding frenzy: The music industry was...

Judge Finalizes $675,000 RIAA Piracy Verdict, Won't Gag Defendant

Dec 7, 2009
A federal judge on Monday finalized a $675,000 jury verdict against a defendant who went to trial after the Recording Industry Association of America sued him for file sharing. U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner presided over the Joel Tenenbaum case...

AOL Ditches Security Tokens To Make Logging In Easier

Dec 4, 2009
AOL customers who sprang for the company’s $10 “PassCode” security token to harden their account can get ready to toss their fancy crypto-numeric keyfobs in the same landfill as all those CD-ROMs AOL mailed them in the 1990s. As the Virginia-based...


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