Husband and wife jailed for Trojan horse that spied on businesses.A married couple are to be jailed for developing and selling a spyware Trojan horse See Trojan. Trojan Horse hollow horse concealed soldiers, enabling them to enter and capture Troy. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad] See : Deceit (application, security) Trojan horse that helped private investigators spy on their clients' business competitors. Ruth Brier-Haephrati, 28, and her 44-year-old husband Michael Haephrati, have entered a plea bargain plea bargain n. in criminal procedure, a negotiation between the defendant and his attorney on one side and the prosecutor on the other, in which the defendant agrees to plead "guilty" or "no contest" to some crimes, in return for reduction of the severity of the to be sentenced to four and two years in jail respectively after confessing to their involvement in the Trojan horse case. The plea entered in a Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest court also says that they will each have to pay one million New Israeli Shekels (121,400 GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) in compensation. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the court, the couple were managers of the firm Target-Eva. Michael Haephrati developed the spyware Trojan horse, while his wife, Ruth, marketed it to several private investigators who bought the code and installed it onto the computers of its clients' rivals. The Haephrati's Trojan horse is said to have been used by private investigators to spy on both a PR agency, whose clients include Israel's second biggest mobile phone operator, Partner Communication, and a cable television station. Another alleged victim was Champion Motors, who import Audi and Volkswagen motor vehicles. www.sophos.com |
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