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Comcast, the leading provider of cable services and one of the world’s leading communications companies, is likely to face the class action lawsuit for allegedly cheating the customers by surreptitiously blocking Internet file transfers. The suit was filed July 18 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon.

The telecommunication giant Comcast has faced a class action lawsuit for allegedly blocking users attempts to share files. Gilbert Randolph announced to have filed the lawsuit in the federal court in Portland, Ore.

L’Union des consommateurs, an Quebec group along with the Bell Canada customer Myrna Raphael, filed a class action lawsuit against the Bell Canada over the company’s internet access policy. The company has allegedly broken the three year ADSL contract with Raphael in 2006.

The Quebec customers filed a class action lawsuit against Bell Canada on charges of Internet hijacking at the Quebec Superior Court last week. The fraud victims say that without their knowledge, or consent, their computers downloaded a hidden program which caused their computers to place expensive, long distance phone calls.

Collectibles site Bigreds.com filed a lawsuit against Yahoo in the US District Court in the Eastern District of New York over the Overture affiliate click fraud allegation. Court order shows that Bigreds has shown their belief that a lucrative affiliate program was run over by Overture led to the alleged click fraud. Bigred [...]

The lawsuit against the Maplewood based manufacturer 3M Co. was raised up to the status of the class action lawsuit in Ramsey County court, today. The lawsuit, filed three years ago, includes charges of age-discrimination against the company. The charge, the lawsuit brings, accuses the company of favoring the younger employees in terms of [...]

Google Inc. said on Wednesday that it had agreed to pay up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit over advertising fraud by outside parties on its site, in a bid to put the controversy behind it.

The international community must take practical measures against cybercrime, opined by Russian Information Technology and Communications Minister Leonid Reiman at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis.

Speaking at the Webroot Spyware Summit in London on Thursday, Dr Nick Palmer, Labour MP and secretary of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (Apig) opined for Help of UN Body to Fight Against Cyber Crime.
He said in his speech,”The UN needs to have a body to ask ISPs not to link to servers [...]

We all are well known about cyber crime, what it is and how it is committed. Daily news on cyber crime gives us the increasing record of cyber crime.
But recent research report says that thousands of users are totally unknown about the remedies of this type of crimes as well as it’s protection and [...]