Online firm, under attack, cites extortion
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A major provider of credit card authorizations for Internet retailers was struggling to remain online yesterday. Authorize.net, of Bellevue, Wash., purchased this year by Lightbridge Inc. of Burlington, has been subjected since last week to ''denial of service&quot; attacks, in which vandals try to knock computers out of commission by overwhelming them with data. ''We are working diligently to minimize ...
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The popular online auction site raises its fees. Is it biting off more than it can chew?
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The Web site has been fighting claims that its founder stole the idea. Now another man says he was the creator.
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As millions of computer users try to deal with the scourge of adware and other nefarious online marketing programs, two purveyors of the technology are battling in a Seattle court.
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Electronics retailer Best Buy is facing a lawsuit over deceiving customers into paying higher prices once in store by having two websites, one accessed by employees and another available on the Internet.
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FTC charges that New York firm infected victims' computers with adware.
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Evgeny Gashichev is accused of using victimsâ online brokerage accounts to buy stock he owned, driving up the price so he could then sell his shares at a profit.
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The tech company is bruised during a fight over intellectual property rights in Korea.
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Malicious e-mails purporting to come from the Better Business Bureau assert that a customer lodged a complaint against the recipient's business.
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The founder of Blackwater defends himselfâand his company.
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Early access to profits A firm that allegedly hacked into corporate servers to access news releases early has been sued by US market regulators.â¦
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Hollywood studios launched legal attacks Tuesday on the computer server operators they claim are the technological middlemen making online film theft possible.
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A stock analyst faces federal charges for trying to extort thousands of dollars from the parent company of St. Louis-based Hardee&#39;s.
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Hackers have crippled one of the internet&#39;s biggest credit card processors, and tens of thousands of online merchants are losing business while the company struggles to recover.
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Federal officials are trying to prosecute operators of Web sites that recruit terrorists.
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US website Monster.com suffers an online attack with the data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen.
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The web giant argues out of both sides of its web portal in trying to get a lawsuit by Chinese dissidents dismissed. Two years ago, the company took the opposite side in a dispute over the online auctioning of Nazi paraphernalia in France.