Daily Archives: October 1, 2010 - 2 results

One law firm’s battle against news-sharing bloggers has reached a new frontier. The free speech advocate Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a counterclaim challenging Righthaven LLC’s copyright infringement lawsuits. EFF says Righthaven is attempting to chill free speech by shaking down blogs and websites that reproduce or share copyrighted news stories.   Fair use doctrine an exception to a creator’s exclusive rights to exploit a work What’s fair depends on several factors, including the purpose and extent of the …

The FBI has cracked a sophisticated financial fraud built on high-tech Internet viruses and low-tech money mules. The viruses were used to access bank accounts here and abroad. The mules were used to transfer money from the owners’ accounts to the thieves’, and to ferry funds to Eastern Europe and Russia.   Computer viruses infected victims’ computers and got account access info Money mules physically transferred funds from owners’ accounts to thieves’ Computer security, scam awareness key to financial protection …