Connecticut Man Accused of Selling Microsoft Code
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A Connecticut computer hacker was arrested yesterday and charged with selling copies of Microsoft Windows proprietary source code.
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A man who has filed hundreds of lawsuits accusing businesses of violating the federal Americans With Disabilities Act was running an extortion scam, says a judge who has barred him from bringing any more such actions without court permission.
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THE FEDS have fingered the collar of a Connecticut computer hacker. He&#39;s been charged with flogging copies of Microsoft Windows proprietary source code.
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A Seattle man has been arrested in what the Justice Department described as its first case against someone accused of using file-sharing digital data to commit identity theft.
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(InfoWorld) - California police arrested a man on Tuesday who allegedly sold illegally copied Microsoft and Adobe Systems software on the Internet for seven years, netting him an estimated $750,000. Gad Zamir, 64, of Menifee, California, was arrested after an eight-month investigation, said the Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Zamir allegedly copied and then sold the programs on online auctions sites, the team said. TheÂ pirated softwareÂ included Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Enterprise -- a $25,000 program at the time of its release -- which he allegedly sold on the auction sites for $7,750, and Adobe's Creative Suite 2, which sold below market price at $280, police said. Police said they found 15 computers, $13,000 in cash, and software valued at $283,000 in Zamir's home, calling it a "mid-level" piracy operation. Microsoft praised the arrest, calling it an "important victory in what is an ongoing, global fight." Â
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A Chinese engineer was charged Thursday with stealing trade secrets from a Silicon Valley company that made military training software and attempting to sell them to Asian governments.
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A 27-year-old Connecticut man was arrested today on charges he offered online to sell the source code for Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs.
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Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit.Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, the husband-and-wife owners of Samtech Research, were sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $25 million in fines to Microsoft for their role in a software reselling scheme run between 1997 and 2001.The Alis and their associates purchased more than $29 million worth of software at Microsoft&#39;s academic-discount rates and then resold it to nonacademic entities, making more than $5 million in profits. The two were convicted on Nov. 28, 2006, and had been awaiting sentencing.Previous to this, the Alis had already been kicked out of Microsoft&#39;s AER (Authorized Education Reseller) program, but they &quot;formed new corporations ... to disguise their identity from Microsoft and re-enter the AER program,&quot; the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement, released Thursday.They laundered their profits by purchasing real estate in their son&#39;s name and by wiring more than $300,000 to Pakistan, the DOJ said.Two of the Alis associates, Keith Griffen, 56, and William Glushenko, 66, were also sentenced in connection with the case. Griffen, a partner in some of the Alis&#39; corporations, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and $20 million in fines. Glushenko was given one year of probation and 100 hours of community service.The scam was exposed during the course of a two-year undercover investigation called &quot;Operation Cyberstorm,&quot; which was conducted by the FBI and the U.S. IRS.
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The former chairman of US software firm Computer Associates is charged with securities fraud in connection with a $2.2bn accounting scandal.
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German man sentenced to three years for selling counterfeit Microsoft products.
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CA's former head of worldwide sales will pay for his part in a major fraud scheme at the software company.
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The man responsible for selling portions of Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) Windows NT and 2000 source code earlier this year was charged with one count of unlawfully distributing a trade secret by the US Attorney&#39;s Office in Manhattan Tuesday.
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Months after launching a federal investigation, authorities yesterday arrested a Connecticut man for selling the source code for Microsoft&#39;s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 operating systems over the Internet.
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A vindictive software programmer upset about his cancelled contract snuck into Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates Inc.&#39;s computer system and zapped out e-commerce coding he and others
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A Los Angeles man filed a class action suit yesterday against Microsoft, claiming that the company manufactured and sold thousands of defective Xbox video game systems.
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A man described as one of the nationâs most prolific senders of spam was among 11 people accused in a federal indictment of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2004  - Four former Microsoft Corp. employees have been charged with theft, conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering in connection with the alleged theft and resale of $32 million of Microsoft software.