Wikileaks cables describe US pressure on Germany in context of data sharing agreements « The Lift – Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism

A number of cables from the Berlin embassy reveal the US concern on Germany’s position in the SWIFT, TFTP and the bilateral US-Germany data sharing agreements. A revealing cable from December 2009 (09BERLIN1528) on the SWIFT agreement describes how  German Minister of Interior de  Maiziere overruled Justice Minister Sabine  Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger and abstained from voting at the November 30 COREPER vote in Brussels on an interim U.S.-EU  agreement to continue the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program.

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Юристы компании Apple Up по патентным разборки с Nokia, Samsung – Bloomberg

Steve Jobs made Apple Inc.’s iPhone one of the best-selling smartphones on the market with its touch screen, fast Web connection and access to more than 300,000 downloadable applications. Now he’s adding lawyers to the mix.

На этой неделе, Apple is squaring off against Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, before the International Trade Commission. Спор, in which each side alleges intellectual property violations, is also a precursor to Apple patent battles with Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp.

At stake is leadership in the U.S. smartphone market. Cupertino, California-based Apple is trying to protect its right to import the iPhone, while shutting out rivals, particularly those whose phones are powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system, the world’s most popular smartphone software. Android-based phones also are made abroad.

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Юристы компании Apple Up по патентным разборки с Nokia, Samsung – Bloomberg

Steve Jobs made Apple Inc.’s iPhone one of the best-selling smartphones on the market with its touch screen, fast Web connection and access to more than 300,000 downloadable applications. Now he’s adding lawyers to the mix.

На этой неделе, Apple is squaring off against Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest mobile-phone maker, before the International Trade Commission. Спор, in which each side alleges intellectual property violations, is also a precursor to Apple patent battles with Motorola Inc. and HTC Corp.

At stake is leadership in the U.S. smartphone market. Cupertino, California-based Apple is trying to protect its right to import the iPhone, while shutting out rivals, particularly those whose phones are powered by Google Inc.’s Android operating system, the world’s most popular smartphone software. Android-based phones also are made abroad.

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США. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Seizes Websites Suspected of Piracy, Counterfeiting – WSJ.com

Federal authorities have shut down more than 70 websites in one the broadest actions yet against companies the government suspects of selling counterfeit or pirated products.

Visitors to the affected siteswhich offer such diverse goods as scarves, golfing gear and rap musicare greeted with a notice stating their domain names have been seized by U.S. Иммиграционного и таможенного законодательства. The notice cites penalties for willful copyright infringement and trafficking in counterfeit goods.

An ICE spokeswoman confirmed that the agency executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names, but declined additional comment. “As this is an ongoing investigation, there are no additional details available at this time,” сказала она.

The agency, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, has been moving on multiple fronts to crack down on sales of goods it contends violate U.S. компании’ trademarks and copyrights.

В августе, например, officials from ICE and the Department of Justice charged 11 people with trafficking in items such as fake designer clothing, handbags and jewelry that were allegedly smuggled from China and offered for sale through eight shops in San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf. В июне, ICE seized the domain names of nine websites accused of letting users watch streamed versions of first-run movies.

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Утечка США. ссылки на документы Google Китай атаки – Компьютерный мир

The cache of more than 250,000 США. Department of State cables that WikiLeaks began releasing on Sunday includes a document linking China’s Politburo to the December 2009 hack of Google’s computer systems.

США. Embassy in Beijing was told by an unidentified Chinese contact that China’s Politburodirected the intrusion into Google’s computer systems,” the New York Times reported Sunday, citing a single leaked State Department cable.

The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said,” the Times reported.

The cable is another piece of evidence, albeit thinly sourced, linking China to the Google attack. Wikileaks is gradually releasing this latest set of cables, and the document in question was not available on WikiLeaksWeb site at press time. The Times, along with a handful of other newspapers, was given early access to the documents.

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Мошенничество Файлы: США. FCPA правила против иностранных Взяточничество Hit компаний в кошелек – DailyFinance

Одним из основных беспокойства для американских компаний, ведущих бизнес за рубежом является иностранным Закона о коррупции (FCPA), a 1977 Федеральный закон, который запрещает подкуп иностранных должностных лиц. Те, кто знаком с этим регулирование знаю, что есть много подводных камней, и даже самый тщательный компании могут работать вразрез с законом из-за действий своих сотрудников.

FCPA органов не является чем-то новым, но в последние годы, таких корпоративных проступок получает больше внимания и повышенной органов, который делает руководство нервной. Нарушение может означать как гражданскую и уголовную ответственность для компаний и их руководителей, и денежных затрат может быть огромным. За ценой защитить себя от правительственного расследования, Компания с нарушением FCPA будет платить штрафные санкции и нести текущие расходы по рекультивации и мониторинга деятельности.

Это не будет преувеличением предположить, что федеральное правительство может повысить свою бдительность на корпоративном перед взяточничество в последнее время в связи с возможностью привлечения в миллиарды долларов путем исполнения FCPA. Или, может быть, что администрация Обамы просто больше заинтересованы в обеспечении хорошего, чистый бизнес операций U.S. компании. В любом случае, Лэнни Брейер, Помощник генерального прокурора по уголовным делам Министерства юстиции, объявил во всеуслышание, что FCPA органов является одним из приоритетных.

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Facebook зараженных новый червь; Более доказательства сайта небезопасно? | ZDNet

Facebook is littered with a worm, seemingly the same one under different names, created by randomly generated developers, which is spreading links all over the site.

Applications like S22BZ5 created by randomly assigned pseudonym ‘Jackson Lasseter’ has nearly 300 people under the grips of the worm. Другие, such as replicated application B5DA8G, 9IHJ35 and AU0ZVE have just under 1,000 people inadvertently spreading the worm.

Just in the last 24 часов, I have seen my own friends’ list infiltrated by these worm applications which set status messages via the application without the knowledge of the profile owner, through a shortened link service with an infected GIF file.

A quick Facebook search for ‘tiny.cc‘ and ‘is.gd‘, two link shortening services, shows a great deal of worry and concern over

Links seem to run through imgcrave.info and imgpant.info which then direct the user to an ordinary, legitimate website like Google or YouTube. Once this is done, your Facebook will be compromised, though this only seems to work on a Windows machine.

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Facebook News Feeds Full of Malware, BitDefender Says | Новости & Мнение | PCMag.com

According to data from security company BitDefender, there’s harmful content behind about 20 percent of posts on a Facebook news feed.

BitDefender said about 60 percent of attacks on Facebook stem from threatening third-party apps, according to a report in the Register. О 22 percent of the offending apps claim to tell you who has been snooping on your profile, 15 percent tout extras in social games like Farmville, 11 percent offer counterfeit advertisements for adislike” кнопка, и 7 percent focus on social iterations of console games likeSuper Mario Brothers.

BitDefender got the data from its SafeGo Facebook privacy app, which scans usersaccounts for malicious content. The Romanian company launched SafeGo in beta last month to scan components like wall posts, inboxes, сообщения, and comments for malware. SafeGo provides you with a dashboard that includes statistics, recent activities, and a privacy meter that shows the security of your profile. It also asks permission before accessing any of your information. The program has been downloaded by about 14,000 users and has scanned more than 17 million posts on Facebook, the Register said.

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Facebook News Feeds Full of Malware, BitDefender Says | Новости & Мнение | PCMag.com

According to data from security company BitDefender, there’s harmful content behind about 20 percent of posts on a Facebook news feed.

BitDefender said about 60 percent of attacks on Facebook stem from threatening third-party apps, according to a report in the Register. О 22 percent of the offending apps claim to tell you who has been snooping on your profile, 15 percent tout extras in social games like Farmville, 11 percent offer counterfeit advertisements for adislike” кнопка, и 7 percent focus on social iterations of console games likeSuper Mario Brothers.

BitDefender got the data from its SafeGo Facebook privacy app, which scans usersaccounts for malicious content. The Romanian company launched SafeGo in beta last month to scan components like wall posts, inboxes, сообщения, and comments for malware. SafeGo provides you with a dashboard that includes statistics, recent activities, and a privacy meter that shows the security of your profile. It also asks permission before accessing any of your information. The program has been downloaded by about 14,000 users and has scanned more than 17 million posts on Facebook, the Register said.

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Жюри заказов SAP платить Oracle $1.3 Миллиард в нарушении дела – Закон Блог – WSJ

Хорошо, we all figured that the jury in the dispute between Oracle and SAP would find that SAP owed Oracle some money. That SAP infringed Oracle’s copyrights was never in dispute.

But on Tuesday afternoon, an Oakland, Калифорния, federal jury awarded Oracle Corp. $1.3 миллиард, significantly more than SAP’s lawyers had argued the company should be made to pay. Click here for the early report from the WSJ; here and here for earlier LB posts on the conflict.

The ubiquitous David Boies, representing Oracle, on Monday argued that SAP owed Oracle company between $288 million and $3 миллиард, , an attorney representing SAP, said the company should pay between $28 million and $41 миллион.

The verdict came in the fourth week of a trial to determine how much SAP should pay Oracle for copyright infringement by a discontinued business unit called TomorrowNow, the culmination of lawsuit Oracle first brought in March 2007.

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