Webmaster pays $3,300 to settle malware charges
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Promises he'll never do it again A webmaster is to surrender $3,300 in ill-gotten gains and refrain from making misleading claims, to settle federal charges he deceived consumers into installing spyware, dialer programs and other types of malware.â¦
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The FTC said it believes the companies induced computer users to buy its spyware-eradication software, sold for US$30 and bearing names such as Spy Wiper and Spy Deleter, after first infecting
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A Russian member of well-known 29A virus writers group has been fined 3,000 roubles (approximately Â£57) after he admitted writing malicious code.
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Federal prosecutors and a former America Online software engineer have negotiated a tentative plea agreement over charges he stole more than 92 million e-mail addresses and sold them to Internet spammers, according to two people familiar with the case.
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NEW YORK, December 16: In addition to its $210 million settlement with the Department of Justice over securities fraud at America Online, Time Warner has reached a proposed settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a further $300 million
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A man who tried to extort $1.3 million from Tom Cruise in exchange for stolen photographs of his wedding to Katie Holmes was sentenced to two years probation, The Associated Press reported. Marc Lewis Gittleman was also fined $3,000 after pleading guilty on Sept. 21 to interstate transportation of stolen property. Mr. Gittleman, a computer technician, obtained thousands of photos from a damaged hard drive that was brought to his workplace by a photographer. He then contacted David Hans Schmidt, 47, who was known for peddling nude pictures and sex tapes of celebrities, and sent Mr. Cruise an e-mail message demanding $1.3 million to keep the pictures private. The authorities set up a sting operation to catch the two men. Mr. Schmidt pleaded guilty to transmitting threatening communications with intent to extort and hanged himself in September.
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EBay's PayPal payment division will pay $3.5 million to consumers and $1.7 million to 28 states in settlements for two different actions regarding its notification of users regarding their rights, the company said Thursday.
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Cingular, Priceline and Travelocity settled with New York state's attorney general over adware charges.
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A Connecticut man facing economic espionage charges says he wasn't serious about selling already-leaked Microsoft source code, but an undercover investigator for the software giant was determined to pay him something.
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InfoWorld - The Business Software Alliance has collected a record settlement of nearly $3.5 million from an international media firm that was using&#160;unlicensed software, the trade group announced Tuesday.
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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
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A company that made contaminated pet food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide will pay $3.1 million in a settlement with pet owners, an attorney said Friday
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A former sales chief at CA Inc. has agreed to pay $29.7 million in restitution after pleading guilty last year to criminal charges.
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The Adelphia Communications Corporation has proposed paying $300 million to resolve cases brought against it by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, according to a filing with regulators.
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Malicious-toolbar distributor pays more than $2 million in federal settlement.
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A Florida man and his company will pay a $25,000 fine to settle a spam lawsuit brought in Massachusetts in the first use by a state of the federal CAN-SPAM Act.
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Federal prosecutors cracked a global cartel that had illegally fixed prices of memory chips in personal computers and servers for three years.