This past week has been a bustling one for cyber justice. The Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement in its ongoing case against scareware purveyors; a notorious hacker admitted stealing roughly two million credit card numbers; the Justice Department has charged a software developer from Arkansas with launching a series of debilitating online attacks against several online news sites that carried embarrassing stories about him. Finally, a federal appeals court decision gives security vendors added protection against spurious lawsuits by adware companies. — Last week, the FTC said it had settled with James Reno and his company ByteHosting Internet Services LLC. Both were named in the commission’s broad sweep last year against purveyors of “scareware,” programs that uses bogus security alerts to frighten people into paying for worthless security software. The settlement imposes a judgment of $1.9 million against Reno and Bytehosting, yet the court overseeing the case suspended all