Nortel Hacked For 10 Years, Failed To Inform Buyers

Chinese hackers allegedly used seven passwords stolen from top executives of Nortel Networks, the once telecommunications giant, to hack into their system and acquire trade secrets. According to the Wall Street Journal, the hackers, presumably form China, penetrated Nortel’s computers as early as the year 2000 and downloaded technical papers,…

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Were Lavasoft’s buyers once on its hit list?

Anti-spyware company Lavasoft AB is now owned by a set of online entrepreneurs who have been linked with misleading websites. The Montreal-based entrepreneurs, who purchased the company’s assets in January, have previously been accused of selling the free versions of Lavasoft products to unwitting internet users as recently as 2007…

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