Rockyou.com - Rocked again...this time, a PII Lawsuit...

Posted on 2010-01-02

Cross posted from: http://blog.54f3.com/2010/01/02/rockyou-com-rocked-again/

Employee Handbooks: 5 Pitfalls

2009-03-09

Although Employee Handbooks are a must for most employers, whether they have a binding effect is another story. California presumes the employer-employee relationship is "at-will" (i.e. employers and employees can sever the employment relationship at any time with or without a reason). Yet...

Rock Star Sues Web Hosts Over Video

March 9, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, the lead singer for the rock band Limp Bizkit, Fred Durst, has filed suit against ten Web site operators, almost all Web hosting and Internet service providers, for allegedly hosting footage of him in a homemade sex tape.

Verizon Faces Lawsuit Over Blocking

January 24, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A Philadelphia-based law firm has filed a lawsuit against Internet service provider Verizon (verizon.com) on behalf of a DSL subscriber and is inviting other Verizon customers to join a class action, according to a report by the Register.

Worldcom Directors Agree on Settlement

January 7, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports, 10 former directors of telecommunications carrier and Web hosting provider Worldcom (worldcom.com) have agreed to pay a total of $54 million to settle parts of a class-action securities lawsuit that stems from the company's accounting scandal, widely reputed to be the largest in history.

Spam King Ordered to Stop

January 5, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, a man known as the "Spam King" has been ordered to stop infecting computers with advertising programs until a federal lawsuit against him is resolved. Stanford Wallace and his companies, SmartBot.net Inc. of Richboro, Pennsylvania and Seismic Entertainment Productions Inc. of Rochester are required by the agreement to send online ads only to people who visit their Web sites.

SCO Web Site Defaced by Hacker

November 29, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to a report by research and analysis firm Netcraft (netcraft.com), the home page of the SCO Web site (sco.com) was defaced by an attacker on Monday.

Switch and Data Ordered to Pay $10M

September 8, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications firm and data center operator Switch and Data was ordered by a jury in Travis County, Texas to pay more than $10 million for backing out of its lease for office space in downtown Austin, according to a report published last week in the Austin American-Statesman.

SCO Resellers Want Unix Support

August 3, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to a report in Ziff Davis Channel Zone, SCO (sco.com) resellers are more concerned with what SCO is doing with its Unix products than its ongoing legal battles over its claim that Unix code found in the Linux kernel violates its intellectual copyrights.

Mirror Image Sues Speedera Networks

June 7, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Mirror Image (mirror-image.com), an adaptive network for online content, application and transaction delivery, announced on Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against content delivery provider Speedera Networks (speedera.com), alleging patent infringement.

Switch and Data Sued by Node Com

May 25, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Telecommunications carrier Switch and Data (switchanddata.com) is facing a $5 million lawsuit by Node Com (nodecom.com), a developer of data center facilities, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Qwest Files Suit Against AT&T

Qwest claims AT&T used its network while also routing long-distance calls over AT&T's own high-speed Internet system.

Sex.com Settles VeriSign Lawsuit

Sex.com did not specify the terms of the settlement in its announcement.

Microsoft Helped BayStar SCO Investment

McGrath told eWeek that two months prior to BayStar's investment, managing partner Lawrence Goldfarb was contacted by unnamed representatives of Microsoft.

SCO Group Ordered to Reveal Code

SCO filed its lawsuit against IBM early last year, claiming that code used in IBM's AIX operating system violates its intellectual property rights in UNIX. IBM is also a major supporter of Linux, another target of SCO. SCO claims that code found in the Linux kernel similarly infringes its UNIX copyrights.

Netcraft: Autozone Mostly Runs Solaris

According to Netcraft, out of Autozone's visible servers, only one ? firefly.autozone.com - is running on Linux. The server, Netcraft says, appears to be the front end of an intranet connecting its retail stores that includes more than 3,000 Linux machines, according to a 1999 agreement with Red Hat. The majority of its servers, including the one that runs its corporate Web site, use the Solaris platform. An additional internal site runs on Windows 2000.

SCO Group Adds Three More Licensees

The licensees included Computer Associates, a developer of software solutions for IT infrastructure management, natural gas supplier Questar and manufacturer Leggett and Platt. The three companies join Web hosting provider EV1Servers (ev1servers.net), who SCO revealed on Monday had signed up for the IP license for Linux.

SCO Suing Autozone, DaimlerChrysler

"AutoZone violated SCO's UNIX copyrights by running versions of the Linux operating system that contain code, structure, sequence and/or organization from SCO's proprietary UNIX System V code in violation of SCO's copyrights," the company said in a release.

SCO Launches First End-User Lawsuit

The lawsuit is the first such suit SCO has brought against an individual end user.

SCO Signs UNIX Agreement with EV1Servers

SCO said the licenses, first offered in August of last year, allows EV1Severs and its customers to continue running Linux servers without the potential interruptions that may arise due to legal issues.

VeriSign Launches ICANN Lawsuit

Assigned Names and Numbers (icann.org) (ICANN) because it believes decisions made by the technical coordination body have prevented its efforts to offer new, moneymaking services.

Register.com Wins Verio Injunction

The injunction bars Verio from using Register.com's Whois database to target customers with unsolicited commercial email, direct mail and telemarketing activity. Verio is also prohibited from any activity that attempts to mislead Register.com customers into believing that Register.com is affiliated with Verio or its services in any way.

SCO Files Lawsuit Against Novell

According to the report, SCO is accusing Novell of slander and seeking a court order that would require Novell to assign to SCO all UNIX-related copyrights and to withdraw any statements that lay claim to ownership of UNIX. The suit also seeks unspecified punitive damages and injunctions that would transfer to SCO any UNIX-related copyrights obtained by Novell.

Red Hat Offers Warranty on Linux Software

The warranty, part of Red Hat's Open Source Assurance Program, comes on the heels of a similar announcement made last week by SuSE Linux, recently acquired by Novell, who said it would offer legal protection to users of the Linux open source operating system.

Network Solutions, Register.com Face Lawsuit

The lawsuit alleges that the two registrars are selling rights to Web URLs and email addresses that infringe on a patent that was granted to Javaher and Weyer on December 30, 2003. The patent covers third-level domains, in which the method of assigning URLs and email addresses makes the "@" sign the dot in the URL. For example, the URL www.john.smith.com becomes john@smith.com. The plaintiffs allege that Network Solutions and Register.com are infringing the patent by selling rights to URLs and email addresses under the .name domain.

SCO Seeking UNIX Licenses in Europe

A SCO intellectual property license "permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions," the company said in a release. SCO said users who purchase the licenses are properly compensating the company for use of its licensed UNIX code that is found in Linux.

SCO Presents IBM With Evidence

The documents are the first pieces of evidence shown to IBM since SCO filed its lawsuit against the computer giant in March of 2003.

SCO Asks UNIX Licensees to Certify Compliance

The SCO Group said written certification must be returned within 30 days. In the event that certification is not received, SCO said in the letter that it reserved the right to "pursue all legal remedies available to it including, but not limited to, license termination rights."

Anti-Piracy Campaign Dealt Major Blow

December 22, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A ruling made Friday in a US appeals court has dealt a major blow to the recording industry's efforts to take legal action against online music pirating by ruling that it cannot force Internet service providers to identify their customers. The federal appeals panel overruled a lower court decision that granted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) the right to see customer information from Internet service provider Verizon Communications Inc.

SonicWALL Launches Premium Filtering Tools

November 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- SonicWALL, Inc. (sonicwall.com) a

Three Respondents Added to Aussie MP3 Case

November 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to Australian IT, an Australian information technology news site,

SCO Group Secures $50 Million Investment

October 17, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- The SCO Group (sco.com) announced yesterday that it has received a $50 million investment from California-based BayStar Capital. The investment, according to the company, was structured as a private placement of non-voting Series A Convertible Preferred Shares, convertible into common equity at a fixed conversion price of $16.93 per share. Upon conversion, BayStar will own an aggregate of approximately 2,953,000 shares of SCO common stock, representing 17.5% of the company's outstanding shares.