‘Legal Cases / Issues’ Archives
A system to cut down computer's spam diet
London: A group of computer scientists have come up with a system that deciphers the templates a botnet uses to create spam, and these templates are then used to teach spam filters what to look for. This can be used to block the most common kind of spam. Most spam messages originate in networks of compromised computers, called botnets, and [...]
Google Loses Domain Name Dispute Over Groovle.com
Internet giant Google.com has lost an arbitration case over the domain name Groovle.com. In a decision released today, The National Arbitration Forum, dismissed Google’s complaint which claimed that it was entitled to the domain name Groovle.com. Google claimed that the domain name is “confusingly similar” to its trademark for [...]
Twitter Hacked: Iranian Cyber Army takes on
The millions of Twitter buffs are at dismay as Twitter gets hacked for the fourth time consecutively, this year. The last time it was hacked in August this year, Twitter said in its status blog that it was 'defending against a denial-of-service attack,' in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing [...]
Apple to Nokia: 'Stop Stealing Our Technology!'
Apple and Nokia are getting into the holiday spirit this year by suing one another over a patent dispute. The fun started this past October when Nokia sued Apple for allegedly infringing on 10 of its patents that covered a wide range of mobile data technologies, including speed encoding and decoding, security and encryption. At the time, the [...]
Warning: this unrealistic image has been Photoshopped
The French parliament has held its first hearing of a proposed law that would require every advertisement to display a disclaimer telling the public that images of people were manipulated. The goal is to help cut down on body issues in adolescents, and violating the law could be costly. If there was a disclaimer on every piece of media that [...]
Photoshopping Illegal? France Set to Regulate Airbrushed Pics
File this squarely under “would never happen in the U.S.” but French lawmakers have a fascinating new idea to combat body image issues: require disclaimers on Photoshopped or otherwise “enhanced” images of people. The required warning would be needed in newspaper and magazine advertising, press photos, product packaging, political [...]
Microsoft sues over IM spam, phishing
Microsoft has filed a lawsuit accusing two companies of launching instant-messaging spam and phishing attacks that targeted users its Live Messenger network. The software company filed a civil lawsuit last week in King County Superior Court in Seattle against Funmobile, Mobilefunster, and several individuals. Microsoft alleges that they are [...]
