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Bank IT bod accused of stealing $40 MEEELLION from employer
If you get an email from a hapless Nigerian prince who needs a hand shifting a few million dollars, the message will no doubt wing its way into your spam folder.
But should you get a plea for help from a Nigerian sysadmin, you may want to take a second look: the Nigerian government's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( …
Bloke, 26, accused of running drug souk Silk Road 2.0 cuffed by Feds
A California man accused of running Silk Road 2.0 – a copycat drugs market hidden within the Tor network – has been arrested by the FBI. The website has since been torn down by Uncle Sam's agents.
The Feds and the US Department of Justice claim 26-year-old Blake Benthall of San Francisco used the alias "Defcon" when operating …
Oracle accused of breaking US competition law over Solaris support
Oracle has been accused of unfair competition and of breaking US anti-trust laws over its Solaris support business.
The claims are made in a counter-lawsuit lodged by Solaris fix-it company Terix, which had previously been dragged into court by Oracle for allegedly stealing the database giant's copyrighted code.
The Terix suit …
Murder accused DIDN'T ask Siri 'how to hide my roommate'
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Florida newspaper The Gainsville Sun reports that the accused in a murder case is alleged to have used his iPhone to search for ways to dispose of a body. Yet all is not what it seems.
The Alachua County Criminal Justice Center is currently hearing a case involving the death of Christian Aguilar in September 2012. In testimony …
UK government accused of hiding TRUTH about Universal Credit fiasco
A government body tasked with flagging up troublesome Whitehall projects has been accused of secrecy and ineptitude over its handling of the Department for Work and Pensions' widely panned Universal Credit programme.
MPs sitting on the Public Account Committee said in a report published today that the Major Projects Authority, …
Nuclear reactor sysadmin accused of hacking 220,000 US Navy sailors' details
A former US Navy sysadmin who worked in an aircraft carrier's nuclear reactor department has been charged with hacking into government networks using the USN's own computers.
Prosecutors have alleged that Nicholas Paul Knight, 27, of Chantilly, Virginia, and his co-accused, 20-year-old Daniel Trenton of Salem, Illinois, were …
Bloke accused of making phone spyware StealthGenie is cuffed by feds
Allegedly building and selling spyware has landed a Pakistani man in trouble with the Feds: the g-men collared 31-year-old Hammad Akbar, of Lahore, on Monday for flogging StealthGenie, it's claimed.
The US Department of Justice says Akbar was indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia for operating a company called InvoCode, …
Accused! Yahoo! exec! SUES! her! accuser!, says! sex! harassment! never! happened!
Maria Zhang, the Yahoo! executive accused of sexual harassment by former staffer Nan Shi, has filed a countersuit for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, claiming Shi's allegations are nothing but a pack of lies.
Lawyers representing Zhang filed the cross-complaint in the California Superior Court in …
Bing accused of out-censoring the Great Firewall
Microsoft is facing another PR battle after a rights group accused Bing of more heavy-handed censorship in China than even homegrown search engine Baidu shackles its users with.
Despite claiming to remove results as “narrowly as possible” in order to comply with Chinese censorship laws, Microsoft is actually blocking a “vast …
Apple accused over 'secure' iMessage encryption
A security researcher has suggested that Apple's claim that its iMessage app is spook-proof and secure does not stand up to scrutiny.
Cyril Cattiaux, who works at the research firm QuarksLab, made his claims during a speech to the Hack in the Box conference, which were quoted by PC World – the tech news site, rather than the …
Accused fraudster Charles Shrem quits Bitcoin Foundation board
Charlie Shrem, the 24-year-old Bitcoin entrepreneur who was arrested on Monday on money-laundering charges, has resigned from his position as vice chairman of the board of the Bitcoin Foundation.
Authorities scooped up Shrem at New York City's JFK Airport on claims that he and accomplice Robert Faiella were involved in …
UK man Lauri Love accused of hacking US Federal Reserve
The US government have laid more hacking charges against a Brit alleged to have hacked into the US Federal Reserve.
Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, Suffolk, is charged with one count of computer hacking and a further charge of aggravated identify theft over an alleged attack on Federal Reserve computer systems between October …
My name is NOT Dread Pirate Roberts: Silk Road accused's fam'n'friends stump up $1m bail
Supporters of the man accused of being the mastermind behind online drugs bazaar the Silk Road have offered to stump up $1m in bail money.
Ross Ulbricht is currently being held in solitary confinement within the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, awaiting trial for his alleged role in running the Silk Road.
Federal …
Techies CAN sue Google, Apple, Intel et al accused of wage-strangling pact
Employees at top Silicon Valley companies can sue bosses accused of entering a secret pact that kept salaries down, a judge in California has ruled.
The lawsuit claims that between 2005 and 2007 Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm entered into non-compete agreements to end the practice of poaching of staff …
Ireland accused of giving Apple 'selective advantage'
The European Commission will investigate The Republic of Ireland's handling of Apple's tax affairs, after raising concerns that discretion available to the nation's tax authorities “... has been used in the case of Apple to grant a selective advantage to that company, reducing its tax burden below the level it should pay based …
Is there life on Mars? Cloud-gazing Curiosity accused of lacking scientific focus
Mars rover Curiosity recently tweeted having its head in the clouds, which just so happens to serve as a good metaphor for a mission that an independent committee of experts say lacks scientific focus.
A Planetary Mission Senior panel reviewed Curiosity's work to date on behalf of US space agency NASA.
The rover's escapades on …
Money? What money? Lawyer for accused Silk Road boss claims you can't launder Bitcoin
An attorney for Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of masterminding the online drugs marketplace Silk Road, has asked that the money-laundering charges against his client be dropped on the basis that Bitcoin, Silk Road's preferred medium of exchange, doesn't count as money.
Ulbricht was arrested in San Francisco in October after a …
Bloke accused of using cop's innocent Facebook snaps in child sex chat
A Connecticut man has been taken to court, accused of stealing a cop's innocent Facebook photos for raunchy online chats with underage girls.
According to a civil lawsuit filed by Joseph and Sarah Dzamko, the defendant Joseph Dossantos allegedly used Joseph Dzamko's pictures to represent himself when flirting with whom he …
Napster cofounder's Jerk.com accused of acting like ... err ... jerks
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on a site they say lifted user information to create smear profiles on a for-profit reputation site.
The FTC said that the operators of Jerk.com (which appears to have since been taken down) harvested data from millions of Facebook users to create profiles without permission …
EE accused of silencing customer gripes on social media pages
EE has dismissed claims that its social media staff are attempting to hush fair criticism levelled at the mobile operator on sites such as Facebook.
A company spokesman told The Register that it was wrong for subscribers to claim that they were being silenced by EE just for posting complaints about the network online.
EE has …
Steelie Neelie accused of killing €0.01-per-megabyte roaming fee cap in Europe
EU Commissioner Neelie Kroes has reportedly dropped her plan to dramatically slash wholesale mobile roaming fees, a move that could have helped drive down Europeans' phone bills.
In a fresh draft proposal for the future of telecoms on the Continent, seen by Reuters this week, Steelie Neelie did not mention the caps on charges as …
What happens in Europe, doesn't stay in Europe: US giants accused of breaking EU privacy pact
More than 30 big US tech firms are breaking international agreed-upon US-EU Safe Harbor commitments to safeguard Europeans’ data, according to a complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday.
The Washington-based Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) claims tech giants such as AOL, Adobe, Salesforce, …
McAfee accused of McSlurping Open Source Vulnerability Database
Intel security subsidiary McAfee may be in hot water after it allegedly scraped thousands of records from the Open Source Vulnerability Database instead of paying for them.
The surreptitious slurp was said to be conducted using fast scripts after McAfee formally inquired about purchasing a license to the data.
Those scripts, …
They ACCUSED him of inventing Bitcoin. Now, Nakamoto hires lawyer to CLEAR his name
The man who Newsweek named as the inventor of Bitcoin has hired a lawyer in a bid to clear his name.
Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto of Temple City, California, has released a statement in which he claimed to be so skint that he couldn't even afford an internet connection. He "unconditionally" denied the Newsweek report.
Seeing as the …
Google accused of hypocrisy over Glass ban at shareholder shindig
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Google's directors were accused of hypocrisy over a regulation banning attendees at its annual shareholder's meeting in California from wearing Google Glass hardware at the event.
"Cameras, recording devices, and other electronic devices, such as smart phones, will not be permitted at the meeting. Photography is prohibited at …
NSA, GCHQ, accused of hacking Belgian smartcard crypto guru
Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater, a Belgian cryptographer whose work is said to have informed card payment systems worldwide, has reportedly become the victim of a spear-phishing attack by the NSA and/or GCHQ.
Belgium's De Standaaard reports that Professor Quisquater clicked on a fake LinkedIn invitation that infected his …
Copycat drug souk Silk Road 2.0: Another man cuffed
A Washington man accused of helping in the management of the copycat site Silk Road 2.0 has been charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine.
According to a criminal complaint filed in US District Court in Seattle, Brian Richard Farrell, 26, is alleged to have used the handle “DoctorClu”, and to …
NSA accused of new crimes ... against slideware
The NSA's much-discussed PRISM initiative has attracted criticism galore from political activists, but now it has come up against serious opposition: a ticked-off designer offended by the poor quality of the NSA's slideware.
The designer in question is Emiland De Cubber, a slideware professional who has declared the NSA “can do …
Careless Whisper? Anonymous messaging app accused of stalking users, blabbing to Feds
The makers of Whisper have denied claims that the anonymous messaging app is secretly tracking the whereabouts of its privacy-conscious users.
The startup hit back following reports that detailed location logs are shared with the US government.
Whisper is a two-year-old phone app that allows people to publish text overlaid on …
ANOTHER Huawei partner accused of slipping US tech to Iran
Documents offering to supply embargoed technology to Iran have been unearthed by Reuters, showing Huawei partner Skycom Tech Co Ltd bidding to provide HP servers to an Iranian mobile network - in breach of sanctions.
The bid, seen by Reuters, was submitted in 2010 by Skycom to Mobile Telecommunication Co of Iran (MCI) and …
Accused Glasshole driver says specs weren't even turned on for traffic stop
A California woman who was stopped by police for driving while wearing Google Glass has pleaded not guilty to charges of speeding and distracted driving.
Early Glass adopter Cecilia Abadie of Temecula, California was issued a traffic citation in October under a clause in the state's vehicle code that forbids operating a motor …
Copyright troll Prenda Law accused of seeding own torrents
Prenda Law – whose odious scam was to find porn downloaders, and humiliate them into a payoff with the threat of exposure – may have been dismembered by the US legal system, but there's still some fun to be had dancing on its grave.
Prenda's attorney principals John Steele, Paul Hansmeier, Paul Duffy, and Brett Gibbs have …
Marks & Sparks accused of silently bonking punters over the tills
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High-street socks'n'frocks chain Marks and Spencer is accused of quietly taking money from shoppers' contactless bank cards at the tills.
The accusations come from Radio 4's Money Box listeners, who called in to report that M&S had billed cards in purses and handbags over the air, unbeknownst to customers who had intended to pay …
Oracle staffer accused of sex-for-favours in Singapore
Oracle is red-faced in the Asia-Pacific, as one of its staffers has been accused of trading sex for favourable treatment by Singapore’s narcotics agency.
The case, reported by Reuters, centres around Ng Boon Gay, former director of the country’s Central Narcotics Bureau, who is facing two charges brought by Singapore’s anti- …
Pirate Bay Warg accused of hacking international police database
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been named as a suspect in the hacking of a European database containing data about wanted criminal suspects and missing people.
According to Denmark's justice minister, two hackers are alleged to have accessed "some information" from the Schengen Information System, a …
Lord to sue Twitter users who falsely accused him of abuse
A former Tory Party treasurer has indicated that his solicitors will pursue anyone on Twitter who wrongly linked his name to false allegations of child abuse.
Lord McAlpine, speaking emotionally on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme this morning, said he was utterly devastated by inaccurate claims that were reported on BBC2's …
Jurors start stretch in the cooler for Facebooking, Googling the accused
Two men have been jailed for two months for breaking strict rules against using Facebook and Google while serving on a jury.
The pair were found to be in contempt of court by senior judges in London yesterday. One of the jailed men posted a damning message on the social network about a child sex abuse defendant mid-trial; the …
Toffee, Apple? U.S. fanbois get their sticky fingers on Nork-teasing flick The Interview
Apple has begun offering the controversial Sony Pictures' movie The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, for rent and sale on its Stateside and Canada iTunes stores.
Fanbois who are willing to shell out $14.99 can purchase a high-definition version of the Nork-ribbing flick from Apple's online shop.
It comes days …
Apple WINS iPod antitrust fight, jury nixes BILLION-dollar payout bid
Apple has prevailed in an almost decade-long antitrust legal battle over the way its iPod gadgets handled music not obtained through iTunes.
A federal jury in Oakland, California, took just four hours to clear the iThings maker of wrongdoing – and tossed out calls for a $351m compensation package for eight million owners of late …
ITC: Seagate and LSI can infringe Realtek patents because Realtek isn't in the US
Seagate and LSI are off the hook for infringing Taiwanese firm Realtek’s semiconductor patents after the US International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled that Realtek can't enforce its rights without a local presence.
Realtek had accused Avago-owned LSI and Seagate back in 2012 of violating its patent on a way of making an …
How was your week? Was it as bad as Uber's? Here's what happened
You ever have one of those weeks where nothing seems to go right?
Maybe the train runs late in the rain. Or the lace on your boot breaks as you're walking out the door. Or maybe four major cities across the planet line up to sue you.
Yeah, Uber just had a week like that – just days after it was injected with $1.2bn of funding, …
Finally, some recognition: 'Selfi' snaps Spanish Word of the Year
The all-encompassing "selfie" has snapped the Fundéu BBVA's Spanish word of the year title for 2014, albeit in the leaner, meaner, and adapted form of selfi.
The choice acknowledges the continuing influx of Anglicisms into Spanish, despite previous efforts to suggest that local constructs autofoto or autorretrato might serve to …
Samsung accused of using child labor in its own factories
Samsung is facing fresh allegations of employing illegal child workers – this time in its own Chinese factories – a day after the company said that an independent review had cleared one of its main suppliers of similar charges.
China Labor Watch has issued a new report on eight factories completely or partially owned by Samsung …
The latest tech firm to be accused of tax dodging: Microsoft
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Microsoft is the latest tech firm to be tarred with the "immoral" tax-dodger brush after a report accused Redmond of funneling £1.7bn in UK revenues through Luxembourg and Ireland in order to legally avoid paying tax here.
The Sunday Times reported that the IT giant was sending its British earnings from new operating system …
Amazon accused of remotely wiping punter's Kindle
It’s bad enough that when you ‘buy’ an e-book, you’re really only renting it, but now we hear that at least one e-book seller will, it has been alleged, wipe your device if it sees fit.
Norwegian writer Martin Bekkelund tells the story of a chum, called Linn, who claims to have had her Kindle remotely wiped by Amazon UK.
Linn …
Alca-Lu's Chinese joint venture in corruption scandal
Alcatel-Lucent's operation in China, Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell (ASB), has been accused of graft by an HR manager who has since gone missing.
According to a Caixin report, 45-year-old Jia Lining took to the WeChat messaging application to post accusations against “high-level” executives of ASB that they engaged in corruption …
Anti-download biz sued for 'abusive' robo-call demands for money
Internet piracy hunter Rightscorp, which shakes down alleged copyright infringers for damages, has been accused of harassment, abuse and illegal debt collection.
A class-action lawsuit [PDF] filed in California claims the business broke a load of US laws while making automated robo-calls accusing people of illegally downloading …
Google accused of meddling with S Korean probe
Google has been accused of methodically interfering with an anti-competition investigation into Android by South Korea's Fair Trade Commission.
Google deleted files and made its employees work from home in an attempt to frustrate the investigation, alleges the commission in an interview with a South Korean newspaper. The non-co- …
Trial of alleged Silk Road kingpin set to begin
The trial of alleged former drugs baron Ross Ulbricht over charges relating to defunct illicit goods site Silk Road is to begin tomorrow.
Ulbricht will appear before a New York court tomorrow accused of seven separate crimes, including narcotics trafficking, running a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to aid and abet …
Fraud cops collar two blokes accused of dodging bank's 2-factor auth
Indian police have arrested two men who allegedly circumvented a bank's two-factor authentication protection and looted online accounts.
The pair are suspected of buying victims' personal details from other crooks and then tricking mobile phone companies into giving the duo replacement SIM cards. Anyone in possession of these …
