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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously overturned the conviction of Arthur Andersen on Tuesday, declaring that the instructions given the jurors who convicted the accounting firm of obstruction of justice in connection with the ignonimous collapse of Enron had been far too murky. (IHT)

These days, the new gansters are online; hackers who extort money from firms by threatening of DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service) attacks. Ransom emails demanding lots of money in return for not hacking and knocking your company servers offline is becoming a very common problem. DDOS attacks overwhelm servers with customer requests until they are forced offline. Worst part is, many computers (which may include yours) are used to ...