Neteller founder Lawrence cops a plea
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Agrees to forfeit $100 million, spill the beans House of Cards The Neteller prosecutions blew open recently with the announcement by the US Attorney's office that founder Stephen Lawrence has agreed to a plea deal, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, involving "one count of conspiracy to use the wires to transmit in interstate and foreign commerce bets and wagering information; to conduct illegal gambling businesses; to engage in international financial transactions for the purpose of promoting illegal gambling; and to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business."â¦
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This pilot fish is evaluating and implementing a new firewall, but hes having some trouble getting it configured. Fortunately, one of the vendors sales engineers is glad to help.
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A Seattle man has been indicted on charges that he used P2P networks to sniff around other users' computers for personal financial information he could use to steal identities and make fraudulent purchases.
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The guy who created Winamp, unleashed Gnutella on the world and quit AOL after clashing with his corporate overlords is still chasing the music. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Sharman Networks has called former Napster expert witness Justin Tygar to give his testimony during the ongoing trial against the peer-to-peer software provider for alleged copyright infringement.
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Few in the tech world need an introduction to Napster&#39;s founder, the college dropout whose revolutionary file-swapping technology shook the foundations of the $11 billion record industry.
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The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration.
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Philippe Dauman knows he needs to bump up Internet revenue, but he can't do it via a purchase.
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(InfoWorld) - A Seattle man faces as many as 29 years in prison after being charged with using the LimeWire and Soulseek p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks to commit identity theft. Gregory Kopiloff was arrested Thursday on charges of mail fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington. This is the first case that Langlie's office is aware of that involves p-to-p identity-theft charges, she said. In court filings, federal prosecutors alleged that Kopiloff began the scam around March 2005, using the p-to-p networks to search for victims who had accidentally configured their software to share sensitive documents. Hard drives were searched for "federal income tax returns, student financial aid applications, and credit reports that had been stored electronically," court filings state. Using that information, Kopiloff would fill out online credit card applications, then buy products such as iPods or computer hard drives, which he then resold for cash, typically at about 50 cents on the dollar, federal prosecutors claim. Kopiloff was allegedly able to buy more than $73,000 worth of merchandise using online credit card accounts he'd set up using the identities of at least 83 victims. It's easy for unsophisticated users to accidentally share sensitive information via p-to-p networks, said Christopher Boyd, director of malware research with FaceTime Communications. "Some P2P programs have 'share folder' options and if you accidentally hit it, bam -- it's out there without you even knowing about it," he said in an instant-message interview. But luckily there's an easy fix for the problem. Boyd recommends that p-to-p users place all of their sensitive documents on a stand-alone drive, separate from the main PC. "It's about the best way to ensure you don't accidentally share your life story with the rest of the world via P2P," he said.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. - A Massachusetts businessman who resold Cisco Systems Inc. networking gear was arrested on charges he defrauded the technology company out of millions of dollars by cheating its program to replace broken or defective hardware.
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LOS ANGELES: The recording industry has turned to its former arch-nemesis, the founder of online music file-swapping service Napster, to help it beat the piracy that it once accused him of spawning.
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A friend of Rufus writes FoTW It appears that the now-legendary Rufus - he of Gadspot.com's battling tech support who called one customer a "a pain in the butt" then reserved the right to "server" him "for being mean" - has has become a torchbearer for obstreperous dictionary-dodgers worldwide.â¦
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With so much traffic in cyberspace, it's about time someone blazed a direct trail to the internet.
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A Canadian man who helped create a company to process Internet gambling transactions pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge Tuesday, about two weeks after another founder of Neteller PLC entered a guilty plea of his own.
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A vendor is pushing products designed to let admins manage whole infrastructures from a Windows computer. By Larry Greenemeier. In a bid to help systems administrators extend their Windows-management tools
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A witness in the ongoing civil trial against peer-to-peer software provider Sharman Networks has added weight to testimony that logs can be maintained to trace users who are exchanging unlicensed music online using the Kazaa software.
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Ziff Davis - Microsoft is out to capture NetWare customers before they have a chance to migrate to Linux.