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Hacking Ring Indicted For $9 Million Fraud

A federal grand jury in Atlanta has indicted eight East Europeans on charges of hacking into a computer network operated by the credit card processing company RBS WorldPay, the U.S. Department of Justice said today. The 16-count indictment alleges the group used sophisticated hacking techniques to compromise data encryption used by RBS WorldPay to protect customer data on payroll debit cards. Payroll debit cards are used by some companies to pay their employees.

Google Facing Antitrust Probe Over Book Deal

Google is facing an antitrust investigation by the Justice Department over its class action deal it reached with publishers and authors to digitize and sell books.

DOJ Hires Antitrust Lawyer For Google/Yahoo Ad Deal

The Justice Department has hired Sanford Litvack, former Walt Disney vice chairman and well known litigator to consult on its inquiry into Google's search advertising deal with Yahoo.

DOJ Files Complaint Against Internet Ad Company

The U.S. Department of Justice wants to seize the property and $53 million from the owner of a Florida- based Internet company that allegedly was involved in a massive Ponzi scheme.A Ponzi scheme is named after Charles Ponzi, who around 100 years ago tricked thousand of New Englanders into investing their money with him. Money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the scheme collapses.

TJX Hackers Charged By Justice Department

Albert "Segvec" Gonzalez, a Miami resident, and ten other people have been charged with crimes associated with the breaches at nine retailers, including the epic penetration of TJX.

Justice Department Steps Up Google, Yahoo Probe

Antitrust regulators will take a closer look at the potential implications of an advertising deal made by Google and Yahoo last month.

A Neutral Net Will Save The Watchdogs

Something is starkly wrong when diametrically opposed ideologues join hands in public to protest something else. That something wrong, in a nutshell: the government and communications companies working in concert to erode the freedoms that made our country great.

Feds Can't Have ISP Records

A federal judge said no to part to the Democrat green-lighted new version of the Patriot Act yesterday. The Feds will have to get permission from the court before they can order ISPs to turn over customer records without telling the customer. I invoked him yesterday, and I'm invoking him again today, Nelson Muntz joins all of us as we point at the DOJ and the FBI and give a collective "Ha ha!"

DOJ Likes Packet Sniffing, Votes For AT&T

Your first thought may be: What's the Department of Justice got to do with Net Neutrality? Well, essentially nothing at this point, except that the FCC asked the Antitrust Division for its opinion. The Commission could have saved some time by just jotting down what AT&T said.

Google, Complain To DOJ About Microsoft

Google's request for extensions of some of Microsoft's antitrust consent decree received naught but an icy rejection from the bench.