Microsoft: Payout of Sasser bounty hinges on conviction
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com September 10, 2004, 1:42 PM PT. Most IT Managers won&#39;t question the importance of security, but this priority has been sliding between the third and fourth most important focus for companies.
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A bounty system for catching spammers would need to offer whistleblowers rewards of $100,000 to $250,000 to be effective, the Federal Trade Commission said.
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Prosecutors unveil the first forensic evidence in the murder trial of Linux-coder Hans Reiser.
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A federal appeals court Thursday upheld most of a &#36;27 million restitution order against former Cisco Systems executive Robert Gordon, now serving a federal prison term for defrauding the San Jose networking giant in an elaborate embezzlement scheme.
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The largest seizure of counterfeit Microsoft software and components ever - some $80 million worth - along with the indictments of 11 people suspected of being involved in the piracy is being credited to a two-year investigation undertaken in a
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California consumers and  businesses will soon receive $1.1 billion in delayed payouts  from Microsoft Corp.  to settle antitrust claims  against the world's biggest software maker, lawyers in the case  said on Wednesday.
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A German manufacturer of technology commonly used in personal computers has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $160 million fine for engaging in an international price-fixing conspiracy that drove up computer prices, the Justice
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Been scammed? Claim your Â£100,000 here We're obliged to the reader who alerted us to the agreeable news that Microsoft will compensate deserving 419 victims to the tune of Â£100,000 a head.â¦
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KRASNOYARSK, November 24 (Itar-Tass) - The Krasnoyarsk territorial court on Wednesday found guilty in high treason physicist Valentin Danilov and sentenced him to 14 years in a tough regime colony.
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When Europe's second-highest court rules Monday on Microsoft Corp.'s appeal of its landmark antitrust conviction, more will be at stake for regulators than just the behavior of the world's largest software company.
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Head of a technology industry trade group that encouraged aggressive legal action against Microsoft for antitrust violations for years received nearly $10M as part of a settlement with the software giant.
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Somewhere in the pine bluffs of Washington, a Microsoft (MSFT) exec or two had to have been chuckling. On Oct. 1, a Rochester (NY) jury found that computer giant Sun Microsystems (SUNW), the company that extracted
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Four people have been sentenced to jail time and tens of millions of dollars in fines for buying discounted Microsoft software and then illegally reselling it at a profit.Mirza Ali, 60, and Sameena Ali, 53, the husband-and-wife owners of Samtech Research, were sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $25 million in fines to Microsoft for their role in a software reselling scheme run between 1997 and 2001.The Alis and their associates purchased more than $29 million worth of software at Microsoft&#39;s academic-discount rates and then resold it to nonacademic entities, making more than $5 million in profits. The two were convicted on Nov. 28, 2006, and had been awaiting sentencing.Previous to this, the Alis had already been kicked out of Microsoft&#39;s AER (Authorized Education Reseller) program, but they &quot;formed new corporations ... to disguise their identity from Microsoft and re-enter the AER program,&quot; the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement, released Thursday.They laundered their profits by purchasing real estate in their son&#39;s name and by wiring more than $300,000 to Pakistan, the DOJ said.Two of the Alis associates, Keith Griffen, 56, and William Glushenko, 66, were also sentenced in connection with the case. Griffen, a partner in some of the Alis&#39; corporations, was sentenced to 33 months in prison and $20 million in fines. Glushenko was given one year of probation and 100 hours of community service.The scam was exposed during the course of a two-year undercover investigation called &quot;Operation Cyberstorm,&quot; which was conducted by the FBI and the U.S. IRS.
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A California man has been sentenced to seven years and three months in prison and ordered to pay $5.4 million in restitution as a result of a federal piracy case, software company Autodesk said Friday.
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A former Microsoft Corp.  employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to selling the world's largest software maker's products for more than &#36;7 million for personal profit, federal prosecutors said.
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Microsoft faces on Monday a decisive chapter in its epic battles with antitrust regulators when Europe&#39;s second-highest court rules whether the software giant is guilty of abusing its crushing market share.
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Fined Â£45,000 for porn spam scam Microsoft has won what it described as the largest reported civil award against a spammer in Europe. The software giant says it won a court order requiring spammer Paul Fox to pay Â£45,000.â¦