Symantec yesterday paid $62.5 million to settle a long-running patent lawsuit with Michigan-based security firm Hilgraeve.
As part of the settlement for a patent involving in-transit scanning for malicious code (US Patent Number 5,319,776), Symantec also received licences to the remaining patents in Hilgraeve's portfolio, including patents related to data communications.
Having a forensic readiness plan is critical to a company's ability to prosecute a computer-based attacker, a detective of Victoria's computer crime squad has told the Hack 2003 conference in Melbourne.
Detective acting sergeant Roger Clay told conference delegates that forensics should not be ignored -- improperly collected evidence won't hold up in court.
A federal jury in Chicago has found Microsoft guilty of patent infringement and ordered the software company to pay $520.6 million in damages.
Privately-held Eolas Technologies and the University of California had sued Microsoft, claiming the company improperly used patented Internet browser technology in its Explorer software.
Eolas and the university hold the patent for the technology, which allowed interactive software to be incorporated in Web pages.
A federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson sentenced Sherman Austin to more than the prosecutor had recommended under a plea bargain.
Austin, 20, pleaded guilty in February to distributing information related to explosives.
Austin told the judge Monday he "wasn't really thinking" when he created the Web site. "I'd be devastated if someone used this information to harm others," he said.
A federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson sentenced Sherman Austin to more than the prosecutor had recommended under a plea bargain.
Austin, 20, pleaded guilty in February to distributing information related to explosives.
Austin told the judge Monday he "wasn't really thinking" when he created the Web site. "I'd be devastated if someone used this information to harm others," he said.
A federal appeals panel ruled this week that the government did not violate search and seizure laws when it used evidence that a hacker gathered to establish a child pornography case.
The opinion reverses a lower court ruling in which a U.S. District Court judge in Virginia suppressed the evidence, saying the government had violated a defendant's rights.
The latest fight in the ongoing war between Motorola and Telsim ended yesterday when a US judge ordered the Turkish mobile phone operator's owners to cough up $4.3 billion.
The judgment comes less than a week after Telsim said a Geneva-based court said its adversary was not able to prove that Telsim's owners, the Uzan family, had committed fraud as Motorola had alleged.
Motorola seems to have managed to have proved its claims to the satisfaction of the US court, but the chances of it actually collecting the money are slim.
A federal judge has ordered financial firm UBS to pay most of the cost of restoring lost e-mail in a gender discrimination suit against it, but she did shift some of the burden to the plaintiff.
Hartford court has sentenced the 23-years old Russian hacker Alexey Ivanov to four years of imprisonment. He has been brought in a verdict of guilty in criminal arrangement, computer hacking, blackmail and other crimes. Alexey Ivanov and Vasily Gorshkov have been arrested in USA in November, 2000. FBI started to keep an eye on them after numerous hacking of American companies' networks. Hackers were enticed from Russia to the US. For this purpose US special services have created false firm "Invita" which has invited hackers to the US for development of computer security system.
A Russian national has been sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to computer hacking and other charges, the U.S. attorney in Sacramento, Calif., announced Thursday.
Aleksey Vladimirovich Ivanov was prosecuted by U.S. attorneys in California, Connecticut, New Jersey and Washington state.
