In an explosive counterclaim filed Monday, MGA Entertainment fired off a new round in the Barbie vs. Bratz doll war, accusing Mattel of an elaborate corporate espionage scheme in which Mattel employees lied about their identities to gain access to confidential information about MGA products and dozens of other toy industry rivals

A provider of internet traffic routing services can be sued for gross negligence for enabling a hacker to gain access to the account of one of its clients, a New York federal judge has ruled, despite the fact that the plaintiff agreed to use domain name services “entirely” at its own risk.

A New York appeals court has handed a major victory to freelance journalist Jim Edwards in a nearly four-year battle to gain access to court documents that he claims contain information about a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme involving international advertising agency Grey Global Group.

Social networking site Twitter on Thursday settled Federal Trade Commission charges that “serious lapses” in data security put its users at risk. The FTC in its administrative complaint said the security lapses allowed hackers to obtain administrative control of Twitter and send out phony tweets from users including then-President-elect Barack Obama and Fox News

The New York Times has lost its bid to obtain wiretap information related to former New York Gov.