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A federal court has awarded Symantec US$21 million in damages against an international network of counterfeit software distributors. Apple Computer, known as much for secretive ways as it is for developing widely popular consumer electronics such as the iPod and iPhone, has been sued for disclosing too much of its customers' personal information. Microsoft has teamed up with eBay to launch a new educational guide to help consumers spot and avoid counterfeit software when shopping online as it ramps up its fight against piracy. Two former Ohio University students may have lost their battle in a data-breach-related lawsuit, but the current US political environment left them with no other recourse than to sue, a security industry analyst told SCMagazine.com. A coalition of technology organisations and vendors has asked a federal appeals court to reject a lawsuit that adware maker Zango has continued to pursue against Kaspersky Lab, accusing the anti-virus firm of unfairly blocking user access to its services. A California law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Certegy Check Services on behalf of the 8.5 million customers whose sensitive information was sold to direct marketers by a former employee of the check verification service. A US federal judge has lifted a temporary injunction that denied three college students from presenting their subway payment hack research at the recent Defcon show. A software engineer testified that he was hired by a unit of News Corp. to develop software that could reverse engineer code on satellite receiver smart cards, but denies hacking. At the rate data breaches occur, it might be easier for everyone to just post their private information straight to the web. A startup software company sued Google on Monday for allegedly having stolen its trade secrets. TJX on Wednesday reported a 47 percent spike in quarterly profits, aided by a reduction in the reserve that was created to pay for costs associated with last year's reported data breach. TJX and three bankers groups have settled a lawsuit over costs related to the discount retailer's record data breach that may have exposed as many as 94 million accounts, the parties announced Tuesday. A U.S. District Court of Delaware jury has found that Secure Computing, and its subsidiaries CyberGuard and Webwasher, infringed three patents that Finjan Software created over the past decade. All the technology in the world won't help if your employees don't follow security policies, so how can you win them over? The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) has filed nine lawsuits on behalf of members Adobe and Symantec, claiming that numerous individuals sold illegal copies of software on eBay. TJX Companies, the parent firm of retailers T.J. Maxx and Marshalls, was hit with a flurry of lawsuits this week resulting from hackers breaching company servers. A major controversy over digital rights management (DRM) technology came to an end this week, as a federal court judge approved a settlement between Sony-BMG Entertainment and a consumer advocacy group. Italian authorities are holding the founder of WabiSabiLabi, an eBay-like online marketplace for buying and selling zero-day vulnerabilities. Visa has doled out some US$880,000 in fines to a Cincinnati-based acquiring bank that retail chain TJX contracted with to process most of its credit card transactions. Web 2.0 is cool, it may even be useful, but it is also causing a headache for those paid to worry about IT security