Software maker in data leak makes deal with feds
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Guidance Software, which exposed data on its government and law enforcement customers, agrees to install tighter security safeguards.
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In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Hewlett-Packard has revealed a history of leaked confidential information as well as details about how a board member quit over the investigations into those leaks.
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Anti-spyware company had granted another company rights to its software.
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Deal will merge antivirus vendor with maker of backup and archiving software.
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The agreement settles a California civil suit over its pursuit of private phone records to trace a news leak.
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FRANKFURT/BOSTON  - Software maker SAP AG   disclosed that a U.S. subsidiary made "inappropriate  downloads" of data from rival Oracle Corp.'s  Web site  and said U.S. authorities asked it to hand over internal  documents.
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A security research company is offering $20,000 for information on undisclosed security flaws in Microsoft&#39;s Windows OS.Digital Armaments, which doesn&#39;t list a phone number or a headquarters address on its Web site, is offering the money as part of the &quot;Hacker&#39;s Challenge&quot; through midnight EST, Feb. 29. The company is also soliciting for flaws in what they term &quot;Windows Diffuse Applications.&quot;Submitters need to illustrate a working exploit and document it, according to the company&#39;s Web site, which is filled with misspelled words.There&#39;s nothing illegal about paying security researchers for flaws, but it does tend to annoy software companies whose products are affected.Wabisabilabi, based in Switzerland,&#160;took the idea of compensating researchers a step further&#160;last year by opening a site for them to sell vulnerabilities in auctions. In response to criticism, company officials countered that researchers could sell zero-day vulnerabilities on the black market.Microsoft, whose security vulnerabilities are generally high profile, advocates that researchers discretely alert it to software problems so users aren&#39;t put at risk. Companies generally refuse to pay for software vulnerabilities.Digital Armaments says on its Web site its research team was founded in 2003, and offices were opened in the U.S. later that year.In addition to paying money for vulnerabilities, Digital Armaments will also apparently pay in stock or credits that can be exchanged for stock under its Digital Armaments Contribution Program.Efforts to reach Digital Armaments on Wednesday morning by e-mail were unsuccessful.
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The software maker has acknowledged it was wrong when it told users certain file formats were insecure.
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The enterprise software company strikes a sizeable deal to get back on track.
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Veritas, now owned by Symantec, will pay $30 million to the SEC to settle accounting charges.
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(InfoWorld) - Veritas Software has agreed to pay $30 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to settle charges that it engaged in fraudulent accounting practices and aided Time Warner's America Online (AOL) in committing fraud. Veritas, whichÂ Symantec purchasedÂ on July 2, 2005, agreed to pay the fine "without admitting or denying the allegations," according to an SEC filing this week. The allegations were contained in a complaint with the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia. A spokeswoman from a Symantec public relations agency confirmed the fine Friday and said the funds had already been set aside in reserve as part of Symantec's acquisition of Veritas. Symantec itself was not named in the SEC complaint, she noted. Company officials were not immediately available for further comment. The fine stems from an inquiry opened four years ago into a secret deal between Veritas and AOL. That deal involved the exchange of software licenses and advertising, and raised each company's revenue by $20 million. Both companies subsequently restated revenue numbers to erase the gains from the deal. Even as it settles its beef with the SEC, Symantec's Veritas is still embroiled in a battle with another government agency, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The IRS is seeking more than $757 million in back taxes the agency claims Veritas owes, as well as $303 million in penalties. Symantec is disputing the charges.
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Yosemite Technologies, a provider of data protection software for servers, has acquired FileKeeper, which focuses on data protection software for desktop and laptop computers.
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The data aggregator said that it has reached a deal to settle a class-action suit filed by shareholders over the massive data breach the company disclosed in early 2005.
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Over five months, Gary Min stole $400 million worth of proprietary information from a DuPont database. But he wasn't caught until after he left the company for a rival firm.
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The company that was hired by the MPAA to rein in leaks and catch downloaders of copyrighted material on BitTorrent networks is apparently the victim of a leak itself, with thousands of its own internal e-mails leaked to BitTorrent last week.
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Company cites breech of policy requiring use of encryption software when sensitive information is downloaded.
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(InfoWorld) - Washington's attorney general has settled the first case prosecuted under the state's 2005 Computer Spyware Act. The settlement. announced Monday, is with antispyware vendor Secure Computer LLC. The White Plains, New York, software companyÂ was accused of marketing its product via deceptive spam and pop-up ads, which offered free spyware scans that always detected a problem with the computer that was scanned. The company and its president, Paul Burke, will pay $725,000 in legal fees and $200,000 in penalties, and will reimburse Washington state customers $75,000, said Paula Selis, senior council with the attorney general's office. "Given the scope of the defendants' practices and the amount of consumer harm out there, we feel this is a very fair settlement." More than 1,100 state residents purchased the company's Spyware Cleaner software since it went on the market in 2004, Selis said. Those customers will now be e-mailed by Secure Computer and offered a refund for the $49.95 product, under terms of the settlement. Secure Computer, which admits no wrongdoing in the matter, is also prohibited from usingÂ deceptive marketing techniquesÂ to promote its software, and the company must now review the advertising of its marketing affiliates to make sure they comply with the settlement. That seems like an unlikely possibility, however, because Spyware Cleaner was pulled from the market shortly after the lawsuits were filed in late January, and Secure Computer LLC is now out of business, according to the company's Web site. Representatives from Secure Computer could not be reached for comment. Secure Computer and four of its business partners were sued by Microsoft and the Washington attorney general in January, but charges against three of the men have already been settled. A fourth man, Manoj Kumar of Maharashtra, India, could not be located, the attorney general's office said. Â