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A US appeals court has ruled in favour of Nyse Euronext and Nasdaq OMX in their battle with Internet and securities industry associations over market data fees.
01 May 2013
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.
26 April 2013
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.
25 April 2013
Nyse Euronext is suing Dutch MTF The Order Machine (TOM) for listing options based on the AEX index without a licence.
24 April 2013
Bloomberg has filed a lawsuit against a US derivatives regulator over new margin rules that differentiate between swaps and futures.
17 April 2013
A former Goldman Sachs trader has pleaded guilty to fabricating trades on a manual system to hide an unauthorised $8.3 billion futures bet.
05 April 2013
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.
28 March 2013
Slovenian police have arrested five people accused of infecting computers at small businesses with malware, accessing online banking accounts and stealing around EUR2 million.
27 March 2013
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.
25 March 2013
US retailer Genesco is suing Visa to recover more than £13 million in penalties it was hit with for a 2010 data breach.
12 March 2013
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.
06 March 2013
Visa is being sued by Australia's competition watchdog, accused of misusing its market power to thwart competing currency conversion services.
06 February 2013
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.
31 January 2013
Shoppers in 40 US states could see a surcharge of up to four per cent added to their credit card purchases from this week.
30 January 2013
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.
25 January 2013
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.
24 January 2013
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.
09 January 2013
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.
02 January 2013
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.
12 December 2012
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.
10 December 2012
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