A day before the Dutch Supreme Court was to deliver its final verdict, the Church of Scientology has dropped its controversial case against writer Karin Spaink, who hyperlinked to what the church believe is copyrighted material. However, Spaink wants the case to continue, as it will establish a freedom of speech precedence for the internet and ISPs in particular.
THE WRITER of the Sasser worm is likely to walk free from court today if German prosecutors get their way.
Although Sasser disabled a huge number of computers world wide, prosecutors say they do not want to lock Sven Jaschan up.
A spokeswoman for the court said that the prosecution had also called at the closed-doors hearing for, now 19, to perform 200 hours of public service and have a two year suspended sentence and be put on probation for three years.
According to Reuters, the defence claim that is unfair and want him to only ‘serve’ a one year suspended sentence.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voted overwhelmingly to reject proposed legislation that critics argued would have allowed the widespread patenting of software in Europe.
The MEPs voted by 648 votes to 18 to reject the proposed directive on computer-implemented inventions, dubbed the software patents directive by critics.
Police have arrested a Chinese university student in Tokyo, accusing him of hacking into companies` computer systems to obtain information on their customers.
Yu Hua, 27, a student at a private university and resident of Tokyo, is accused of violating the anti-hacking law, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday.
He had placed an advertisement on an Internet bulletin board offering the customer information for sale. Yu admitted to the allegations during questioning, telling investigators he needed money for his tuition fees.
The operator of an Internet pharmacy, who was ordered to refrain from similar online activity after being accused of fraud, has been arrested for apparently setting up another Internet drug firm in the Dominican Republic, authorities said Tuesday.
Christopher William Smith, 25, was arrested Thursday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as he exited an airplane from the Dominican Republic.
The man on trial for writing the Sasser computer worm which wreaked havoc in big businesses and homes across the world last year has confessed to all the charges against him, a German court said on Tuesday.
Two computer geeks who masterminded a £6.5m fraud network stretching from ex-KGB agents in Russia to hackers in America, have been jailed as the first people in Britain to peddle credit card data over the internet.
Douglas Havard, 24 and Lee Elwood, 25, were tracked down in Leeds and Glasgow after an investigation by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit foiled their global scam.
Starting in Russia, their fraudulent network recruited conmen to send spoof e-mails in an attempt to coax people’s credit card details, under the guise of updating accounts or fixing a payment error.
A 22-year-old man has become the first person in the UK to be convicted for modifying a video games console.
The Cambridge graduate was sentenced at Caerphilly Magistrates Court in Wales to 140 hours of community service.
The man had been selling modified Xbox consoles which he fitted with a big hard drive containing 80 games.
"This case sets a major precedent which marks a milestone in the fight against piracy," said games industry spokesman Michael Rawlinson.
POLICE have charged a former Rositas senior staff member accused of hacking into a secure e-mail account and leaking private e-mails.
The 42-year-old man has been accused of accessing the e-mail account of a Rositas general manager, and then forwarding e-mails to a number of outside sources, including The Advertiser.
Late last week, detectives from the Bendigo Crime Investigation Unit charged the Hoppers Crossing man with six counts of unauthorised access to restricted data on a computer.
He is scheduled to appear at Bendigo Magistrates Court next month.
A MAN IN A place called Utah which is in a country called America, has taken legal action against Slashdot, Groklaw, Pamela Jones, and a number of other individuals and organisations amounting to around 230 or so.
The case was filed in a district court in "Utah", on the 21st of June last.
The nature of the case is a federal civil rights action with a geezer called Jeffrey Vernon Merkey seeking punitive damages and costs because he alleges the defendants, whose number is legion, violated his constitutional and statutory rights.
