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Judge rejects FBI bid to hack online bank theft suspect's computer

A Texas judge has rejected a request from the FBI for a warrant letting it hack into the computer of an online bank robbing suspect and install spyware.

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Icelandic court orders Valitor to process WikiLeaks donations

Iceland's Supreme Court has ordered local card acquiring outfit Valitor to start processing payments for whistleblowing Web site WikiLeaks within 15 days or face daily fines of nearly $7000.

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Nyse Euronext sues Dutch MTF TOM

Nyse Euronext is suing Dutch MTF The Order Machine (TOM) for listing options based on the AEX index without a licence.

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Bloomberg sues CFTC over swaps margin rule

Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit against a US derivatives regulator over new margin rules that differentiate between swaps and futures.

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Ex-Goldman trader pleads guilty to wire fraud

A former Goldman Sachs trader has pleaded guilty to fabricating trades on a manual system to hide an unauthorised $8.3 billion futures bet.

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Europol takes down card fraud network

Europol and Romanian police have arrested 44 alleged members of a global fraud ring believed to have tampered with payment terminals throughout Europe, stealing the details of tens of thousands of cards.

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Slovenian cops arrest five over EUR2m malware scam

Slovenian police have arrested five people accused of infecting computers at small businesses with malware, accessing online banking accounts and stealing around EUR2 million.

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Judge backs bank against customer over hacking responsibility

A US judge has backed BancorpSouth in its dispute with a business customer over who was responsible for the loss of around $440,000 stolen from the customer's account.

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Retailer sues Visa over data breach penalties

US retailer Genesco is suing Visa to recover more than £13 million in penalties it was hit with for a 2010 data breach.

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PayOne files patent suit against Home Depot over use of PayPal POS tech

Mobile money vendor PayOne has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Home Depot over the retail giant's use of PayPal's in-store checkout technology.

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Oz watchdog sues Visa over currency conversion services

Visa is being sued by Australia's competition watchdog, accused of misusing its market power to thwart competing currency conversion services.

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Apple files patent application for 'ad-hoc cash dispensing network'

Apple has filed a US patent application for an "ad-hoc cash-dispensing network" which lets people who need cash but cannot find an ATM send out an SOS through their iPhone to find people nearby who are willing to lend them the money.

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US retailers get option to add credit card surcharge

Shoppers in 40 US states could see a surcharge of up to four per cent added to their credit card purchases from this week.

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Anonymous members jailed over cyber attacks

A British student has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for his part in a series of DDoS attacks carried out by the Anonymous collective against major firms, including PayPal.

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US charges three over Gozi bank malware

US authorities have charged three men with creating and distributing the Gozi computer virus, which infected more than a million computers around the world, accessing banking details and stealing millions of dollars.

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Hacker jailed over Subway store POS attack

A Romanian man has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for his part in a scam that saw the point-of-sale systems of hundreds of US Subway sandwich shops hacked, thousands of cards compromised and millions of dollars stolen.

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DoJ probes Autonomy accounting claims

Hewlett-Packard says that the US Department of Justice is investigating its allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy, the UK software house it acquired in 2011.

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Facebook helps FBI take down $850m cyber-gang

Facebook has helped the FBI bust an international cyber-gang believed to be behind an 11 million computer-strong botnet that has cost more than $850 million in losses.

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Anonymous spokesman indicted over hacked Stratfor card details

A US federal grand jury has indicted Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown in relation to a 2011 data breach at Stratfor Global Intelligence which saw 5000 credit card account numbers stolen.

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Student convicted over Anonymous PayPal attack

A British student has been convicted for his part in a series of DDoS attacks carried out by the Anonymous collective against major firms, including PayPal.