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News (36)

• Criminal sanctions needed in AU anti-spam laws: Govt advisor

  A member of the advisory group charged with helping develop the new anti-spam legislation does not feel the final document goes far enough in punishing people found guilty of spamming.

• Civil liberties group raises concerns over AU spam legislation

  Civil rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has claimed the legislation introduced by the Australian Parliament to fight spam will give investigators excessive search and seizure powers.

• NZ spammer fronts Qld court

  A Queensland man headed up one of the world's largest online spamming operations that racked up as many as 140,000 reports, a court has heard.

• Suspected spam king to appear in court

  A 30-year-old man suspected of being the 'Rizler' spam king is scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday, following his arrest last week when he flew into the US.

• Stiff spam penalties urged in the US

  Spammers convicted under a recently enacted US antispam law could face stiff sentences under newly finalised government recommendations.

Features and Case Studies (3)

• Battling spyware in court

  In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.

• Microsoft's bounty hunter

  Attorney Hemanshu Nigam says virus writers "ought to think twice before they hit the send button."

• How corporate Australia battles information overload

  We look at five organisations that took different approaches to satisfying a common business requirement: to improve the management of corporate information. We hear from Jetstar, Family Court, SHFA, Count Wealth and MBF.

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