Legal

Labor Department hackers more sophisticated than most

Smartphones driving violent crime across US

An IDG News Service investigation finds guns and knives are used in a quarter of all robberies of cellphones in San Francisco

BYOD Policy: Employee Right to Social Media Privacy Is Paramount

Appeals court ruling could be ‘death’ of software patents

But an EFF lawyer says the federal circuit's patent ruling doesn't provide much new guidance

New York man pleads guilty to illegally selling Intuit software

Raymond Locklin placed orders on Intuit for free replacement disks of its software

Payment card processors hacked in $45 million fraud

U.S. federal prosecutors indicted eight people accused of running a vast carding scheme

San Francisco axes cellphone warning law in settlement with CTIA

The law would have required cellphone retailers to provide information about alleged dangers of cellphone radiation

Spamhaus DDoS suspect extradited to the Netherlands

A judge decided to keep the suspect in custody for 14 days pending the outcome of an investigation, the Public Prosecution Service said

Megaupload’s lawyers: DOJ’s charges have no basis in law

The U.S. doesn't have criminal secondary copyright infringement laws, they argue in a white paper

EU says Motorola abused its position by seeking and enforcing injunction against Apple

Motorola's practices harm competition and could lead to less consumer choice, the Commission said