With billions of dollars of federal contracts at stake, information technology providers are being swept up in the tide of a new U.S. Department of Defense information security requirement that will become mandatory for IT providers and other companies doing business with DoD. While IT companies already incorporate data protection elements in the products and services they provide to DoD, the department is raising the bar on the way vendors should handle information security...
Microsoft has asked China to crack down on pirated Office software used by four major state-run companies. Speaking to a government panel last month, Microsoft named China National Petroleum Corp., China Post Group, China Railway Construction Corp. and Travelsky Technology as serial users of pirated...
An offer made earlier this month to pay whistle blowers $1 million for reporting companies using unlicensed software has met little or no public outcry, unlike lawsuits initiated by the music industry against illegal music downloaders. The Business Software Alliance, a global organization representi...
People running pirated versions of Microsoft's upcoming Windows Vista operating system and Windows Longhorn server software will face having the programs rendered inactive, the company said this week. Freshly installed software must be registered with its maker or it will operate only in "reduced f...
Microsoft announced it has filed 26 lawsuits against alleged dealers of illegal software. These suits are more than double the number of cases Microsoft has filed on any one day -- in fiscal year 2006 it filed 10 cases at one shot. The suits represent the launch of Microsoft's latest and, it says, ...
Microsoft has expanded its Genuine Software Initiative, a pilot program to notify users of non-genuine Windows operating systems that their copies of the software are illegal. The software giant is using the "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool -- a virtual equivalent of the exploding dye ...
In a move to reduce software piracy in China, Beijing has banned the sale of so-called "naked" computers, that is, personal computers sold without software, according to an announcement on Friday. The timing could be a political move to coincide with Chinese President Hu Jintao's upcoming visit to t...
One visit to the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice's Web site offers an eye-opening glimpse into the world of cybercrime. Case after case details how the Feds are cracking down on cyber-criminals, defendants are pleading guilty, and the judged are bei...
In a move to combat software piracy, Microsoft yesterday launched its Windows Genuine Advantage program worldwide. The company hopes to save millions by clamping down on the use of unlicensed software. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) reports that 35 percent of the software installed on computer...
Microsoft today announced it has filed eight lawsuits against computer system builders and resellers for alleged distribution of counterfeit, illicit and unlicensed software and software components. This action follows similar action in November 2004 against eight other dealers. Defendants in each c...
In an attempt to cut down on the use of counterfeit software use, Microsoft is allowing users of non-licensed copies of Windows XP in the United Kingdom to trade them in for legitimate versions of the operating system. The program, Windows XP Counterfeit Project, has some strings attached. To be eli...
P2P operators aren't responsible for their users' online file-swapping activities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled in the landmark MGM v. Grokster decision. Still, Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) boss Mitch Bainwol says, "This decision does nothing to absolve the...
A trade group of technology companies has issued a policy statement urging Congress to take a close look at the controversial, so-called Induce Act. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) adopted a policy urging that "U.S. Senate legislation introduced to stem the growth of online piracy [Induce] shou...
More than a third of the software on the world's PCs has been pirated from its makers, according to a study released yesterday by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), whose members include Adobe, Apple, Cisco Systems, IBM and Microsoft. The annual study -- this year conducted for the first time by ...
Software piracy is so widespread that it exists in homes, schools, businesses and government offices. According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international association representing the leading software developers, software piracy is practiced by individual PC users as well as computer ...
Always - To avoid potential risks
Sometimes - Depends on the QR code use in context
Never - I'm not concerned about QR code security risks
I'm not familiar with QR codes
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