Facebook sues Canadian porn company over hacking
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users&#39; personal details.Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook&#39;s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.The company first filed suit back in June, but amended the complaint this month after obtaining court orders to identify who controlled the servers trying to access its site.Experts have warned people against publishing too much personal information on social networking sites for fear it could be collected and then abused by fraudsters.Facebook, one of the most-used social networking sites after MySpace, said the automated scripts caused error messages to be generated, but the company did not say if user information was successfully collected.Named in the suit is Istra Holdings, which controls SlickCash.com, an affiliate advertising business that offers commissions to Web publishers for referring Internet surfers to its portfolio of adult sites.It also names Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, both of whom the suit says work at Istra in Toronto, and Ming Wu of Markham, Ontario, as well as 14 other unidentified people.Facebook said the hacking attempts cost it at least US$5,000 to investigate. The company has requested a jury trial and is seeking to bar the defendants from accessing its computer systems in the future, in addition to damages.&#160;
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Blog: The Pirate Bay, a site accused of encouraging copyright violations, said Swedish authorities were preparing to accuse the site of distributing porn. Site operators suspect this was just the latest attempt to close them down.
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USENET PROVIDER Easynews says that it has turned up postings of porn pictures that are laced with a program that exploits the Windows JPEG glitch.
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Google Sued by Pornography Publisher Over Image Search  Porn publisher Perfect 10 Inc. sued Google for copyright infringement last Friday, accusing Google of failing to  remove from its search results thousands of photos posted online (on non-Google sites)without permission from Perfect 10. The lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District ...
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U.S. regulators sued an overseas  company and its owner on Monday, alleging they hacked into  computer systems to get corporate news releases early and  traded on that information, making a profit of $2.7 million.
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Nice N' Sleazy Facebook is suing a Canadian skin-flick firm for trying to hack into its website.â¦
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Facebook will step up the policing of pornography, harassment, and inappropriate behavior on its social networking site, settling a&#160;consumer fraud investigation&#160;by New York State Attorney General (AG) Andrew Cuomo.
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The firm behind Kazaa is being sued by the record industry in the latest round of a fight over copyright. Lawyers in Australia branded the online software network &quot;an engine of copyright piracy
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It's beauty versus geek when a man convicted of hacking into LexisNexis last year allegedly hijacks the MySpace account of an 18-year-old Los Angeles woman with a popular streaming video show. When the hacker allegedly demands nude photos and phone, he gets returned to the pokey instead.
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Perl necklace Visitors to Perl.com, the O'Reilly Media-owned resource, were redirected yesterday (Thursday) to a link farm pushing porn sites.â¦
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Flawed ActiveX controls used to upload photos on the popular social networking sites Facebook and MySpace can be used by hackers to snatch control of Windows PCs, according to security researchers.
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Only 17 when software's 'hotties' video taken, plaintiff alleges
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IP defences tested GraphOn, the Santa Cruz, CA software maker has filed a lawsuit against Juniper Networks, alleging infringement of three patents related to firewall technology.â¦
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A 14-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by another user of MySpace.com sued the social networking Web site Monday, claiming it does not take sufficient steps to protect underage members.
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A 25-year-old Kitchener, Ont. man is being sued again, this time by giants Microsoft and Amazon.com, for allegedly clogging cyberspace with fraudulent junk mail.
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By Todd R. Brown  SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO -- Talk about working blue: A local venture capital firm recently fell prey to a hacker who took over the company's Web site and directed viewers to several porn sites instead.
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InfoWorld - Facebook&#39;s safety controls and procedures are deficient and fail to properly protect minors from adult sexual predators in the company&#39;s social-networking site, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged Monday.