Connecticut sues Accenture over stolen backup tape
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The state of Connecticut is suing Accenture for not encrypting data on a backup tape that was stolen from the car of a state intern in Ohio. The tape contained sensitive data about hundreds of state bank accounts and purchasing cards.
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Cingular Wireless LLC, the nation's largest cell phone provider, on Friday sued a private eye caught up in the scandal over the Hewlett-Packard Co. leak investigation, seeking to make him pay for allegedly obtaining customer call records under false pretenses.
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Allied Capital, a Washington financial services firm, said yesterday that someone it hired had obtained the  phone records of David Einhorn, a hedge-fund manager who has accused the company of fraud, and Einhorn's company, Greenlight Capital.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ For nearly a year, a legal document charges, Google employees aided a Missouri-based company that provided software and tech support to people who downloaded pirated software and movies.
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Only 17 when software's 'hotties' video taken, plaintiff alleges
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Michael Moeller, who has spoken out on the company's behalf, was among those whose records were improperly accessed, CNET News.com has learned.
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(InfoWorld) - Symantec Corp. has filed suit against an alleged software piracy ring, that has been in operation in North America since late 2003, the software vendor claims. The lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles seeks more than US$15 million in damages from a network of U.S. and Canadian businesses that are alleged to have sold counterfeit versions of Symantec's products, including Norton AntiVirus, pcAnywhere and Veritas Backup Exec. These companies and their affiliates run a global counterfeit organization that focuses on the U.S. and Canada, Symantec said. The businesses, which operated under eight different names, including Sili Inc., Advanced Sales Productivity Solutions Inc. and GT Micro, used spam and online advertising to offer Symantec's software at cut-rate prices, said Cris Paden, a Symantec spokesman. Customers who paid for the software would then be sent disks with Symantec's logo, wrapped in plain white sleeves. The disks, which came without documentation, would not install or work properly and could also include malicious software that would then be used to steal sensitive information from the purchaser's computer, Paden said. Symantec began investigating the matter in early 2004, when it started receiving complaints from customers who had bought the bad software, Paden added. "The people who bought these disks thinking they were from Symantec would come to our customer service," he said. One of the Sili Web sites named in Symantec's complaint, Sle-business.com, http://www.sle-business.com/Product%20List.htm Norton AntiVirus 2006. That product typically sells for about $20. Sle-business.com's Web site also offers software from McAfee Inc., Intuit Inc., Corel Corp. and Webroot Software Inc., among others. Sili representatives could not be reached immediately for comment. Symantec has worked with police to seize more than 100,000 copies of counterfeit disks, but Paden did not know if criminal charges would be forthcoming in the case. "We are working with law enforcement," he said. "I can't tell you who because if I did that would tip our hands to the extent of our investigation." Like many other vendors, Symantec has become more aggressive in its fight against unauthorized copying. In 2002, Symantec was losing about $500 million per year to software piracy, but it has now reduced those losses to less than $50 million per year, he said. Customers who are worried that they may be buying phony software online should make sure they are actually giving their credit-card information over a secure Web site, Paden said. That means that when they are asked to enter a credit-card number, the Web address should begin with https://, and there should be a locked padlock displayed near the address to indicate that the browser is visiting a secure site. "That's the smoking gun as to whether you're dealing with a legitimate outfit or not," Paden said. "99 percent of the time these guys don't use this."ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Hewlett-Packard, which had some well publicizedÂ legal troublesÂ of its own not long ago, has unveiled a data backup system to help other companies when they are hit with a lawsuit or regulatory audit.
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Company sues alleged software piracy ring for selling counterfeit versions of its products, including Norton AntiVirus.
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The joint lawsuit was filed yesterday in federal court in Seattle against Gold Disk Canada and its principals -- Barry, Eric and Matthew Head -- and accuses them of misusing Microsoft&#39;s Hotmail
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Blog: Past and current employees are affected by a third-party tape loss.
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A top executive fired by Keane Inc. accused the Boston technology firm yesterday of breach of contract, defamation, and invasion of privacy in a Suffolk Superior Court lawsuit that portrayed a rift in the corporate suite.
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Claiming national security concerns, and backed by Justice Department special counsel, the phone provider argues in federal court that a lawsuit against it for ponying up millions of phone records for a secret government data-mining program should be dismissed. Ryan Singel reports from the courthouse.
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Contracts squeezed them out Accenture is reported to have been finalising negotiations to hand two much maligned NHS contracts worth more than Â£2bn over to rival CSC.â¦
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Â· Lawyer says thousands of prison documents 'lost'Â· Legal notices demand release of key information
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The firm behind popular online file-sharing software eDonkey has agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
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A one-time IT worker at a Portland, Ore., health care agency who was fired after a data breach in late 2005 has filed suit against the organization saying he was wrongfully terminated.