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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. ...

Feds Bust Cookie-Stuffing Code Seller

Feb 9, 2010
Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. The felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud charge levied Tuesday against...

Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret

Feb 9, 2010
A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for...

Sweden Probing Cisco, NASA Hacks

Feb 8, 2010
Swedish investigators are probing a hacker U.S. authorities accuse of unlawfully intruding into Cisco Systems, NASA’s Ames Research Center and NASA’s Advanced Supercomputing Division, the authorities said Monday. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, known in...

Jurors: Stop Twittering

Feb 8, 2010
A federal court policy-making body is belatedly entering the internet age by proposing that judges clearly inform jurors they must not electronically discuss cases they are hearing. It’s standard procedure to inform jurors to remain mum and not...

Authors Guild: 'To RIAA or Not to RIAA'

Feb 5, 2010
There’s equal reason to support or object to the proposed Google Books settlement. Creating a digital catalog of the worlds’ words might be the Holy Grail of intellectual empowerment. Yet building that library in the clouds would be allowed without...


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