Reuters writes that, according to a new report,  “

[p]rices charged by cybercriminals selling hacked bank and credit card details have fallen sharply as the volume of data on offer has soared, forcing them to look elsewhere to boost profit margins.  Researchers for Finjan, a Web security firm, said the high volumes traded had led to bank and credit card information becoming ‘commoditized’ – account details with PIN codes that once fetched $100 or more each might now go for $10 or $20.  In its latest quarterly survey of Web trends, the California-based company said cybercrime had evolved into ‘a major shadow economy ruled by business rules and logic that closely mimics the legitimate business world.’”

The Wall Street Journal reports that “EBay Inc. won a significant victory over jeweler Tiffany & Co. in a federal-court ruling that sets a clear limit on how far online retailers have to go in policing trademarks on U.S. Web sites.  The ruling came down decisively in favor of eBay and other e-commerce companies and against Tiffany and other trademark holders, which are trying to hold the Internet companies liable for the sale of counterfeit goods.  The decision runs counter to recent rulings in Europe, where courts have held that Web sites bear more responsibility in monitoring their online properties. EBay, for example, lost a June 30 ruling in which a French court decided that it must pay €40 million ($63.7 million) in damages to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA and other luxury-goods makers.”

According to the Seattle Times, “A high-profile push by business groups to double the number of U.S. bachelor’s degrees awarded in science, math and engineering by 2015 is falling way behind target, a new report says.  In 2005, 15 prominent business groups warned that a lack of expert workers and teachers posed a threat to U.S. competitiveness, and said the country would need 400,000 new graduates in the so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields by 2015.  In an update to be published Tuesday, the group reports the number of degrees in those fields rose slightly earlier in the decade, citing figures from the years after 2001 that have become available since the first report was published. But the number of degrees has since flattened out at around 225,000 per year.”

The New York Times has an interesting article on Yahoo-Google, which points out that, overall, the cost to advertisers of a click from Yahoo’s site will go up by 22 percent if Google sells Yahoo’s ads.  Given this substantial rise in prices, the publication writes, “[i]t’s not a surprise that search advertisers are wary of [the] deal” between Yahoo and Google.

ZDNet reveals that “Apple has filed a lawsuit against Psystar, a Mac clone maker based in Florida.  The lawsuit, which was flagged by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, is a little vague at the moment. The complaint isn’t available electronically, but documents reveal that Apple filed its suit on July 3 in the northern district of California.  Apple alleges licensing and trademark violations and copyright infringement. Apple apparently was waiting to see if Psystar (all resources) was legit and finding customers before launching its lawsuit.”