Lawsuits have been filed against three Oregon-based companies accused of selling pirate Microsoft software. Microsoft is portraying the move is part of an ongoing legal effort to halt the spread of companies that illegally sell pirate programs.
Microsoft has seized software worth £3.5m from suspected pirates in West Lothian, Scotland, making it the company's largest ever haul of allegedly illegal software. Police and West Lothian council officers raided homes and offices in Kinross...
The top ten list for most frequently pirated films during June: Universally slated war epic Pearl Harbor came second in the piracy stakes, beating Oscar winning Traffic and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider into third and fourth place respectively.
Holes in company networks are being exploited by hackers and fraudulent employees to store and distribute illegal pornography, media files and pirated software. A 'honeypot' network set up purely to attract and monitor the level and type of hacking...
Around 29 per cent of software applications in use in the UK are thought to be pirated, according to analyst group IDC. Microsoft has announced what it hopes will be a new attack on piracy - the Redmond-based giant has decided to give away free...
And while 97 per cent of those questioned were confident all the software on their company systems is legal, around 27 per cent of UK businesses are thought to be using pirated software, suggesting a "severe lack of awareness regarding the level...