European Software Pirates Caught
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Police in Greece and Britain have broken up a software piracy ring and arrested two men who are accused of selling millions of dollars worth of pirated business software.
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Malaysian authorities have begun raiding computer retail outlets offering pirated software amid concerns that illegal copies of Microsoft Corp.'s newest operating system, Windows Vista, are already on sale.
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U.K. users will be able to replace pirated versions of Windows that they have purchased.
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p2pnet.net News:- A large international network of hackers who stole computer programmes, films and music and then sold them on the black market has been broken up by Polish police.
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Dirty deeds done dirt cheap The adage about no honour among thieves also applies to hackers, it would seem. Pirates are flogging knocked-off copies of the MPack hacker toolkit at a discount of up to 85 per cent, according to anti-virus experts at net security firm Symantec.â¦
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You can't cheat an honest person, they say. Like generations of scammers before them, some malware writers are taking that "advice" to heart, releasing their Trojan software and keyloggers as "cracked" versions of Vista oon peer-to-peer service. Who's going to turn them in, after all -- a would-be pirate?
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SHENZHEN, China  - Pirated software worth $500  million, including counterfeit Microsoft and Symantec products,  has been seized in a long-running joint probe by Chinese police  and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, officials from  both countries said on Tuesday.
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German police said they had exposed the names of thousands of users of illegal Internet piracy sites as part of a crackdown on swapping bootleg copies of movies, computer games, software and music.
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Dissatisfied customers led to his demise A Southern California man was arrested for allegedly producing and selling thousands of dollars worth of pirated software from Microsoft and Adobe, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's department.â¦
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A Microsoft representative made it quite clear what Vista pirates can expect to happen to their unlicensed installations.
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What hope then for Vista toughness? Some, or maybe many, Microsoft volume license customers were told on Monday and Tuesday that their PCs were running pirated software.â¦
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Microsoft last week quietly launched a pilot program to tackle the increasing problem of software piracy. Windows Genuine Advantage is the first trial of a validation scheme operating on Microsoftâs Download Center.
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PC Tools' Malware Research Center reports a 57  percent increase in keylogging activity affecting both the consumer and  enterprise users in Europe and the United States.
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Suspect accused of stealing and distributing source code over the Internet.
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WASHINGTON - Federal agents seized computers and software Wednesday as part of an investigation targeting an Internet network used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.    The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
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Anti-piracy teams use our tech without permission, claims Altnet
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A man suspected of stealing source code from Cisco Systems has been arrested in the U.K.