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  • Programmer faces Greek jail over spam claims

    The Greek police have arrested a Swedish programmer, claiming that he advertised and sold pharmaceutical products on the Web, a police spokesperson said on Friday.

  • Convicted data thief gets eight years

    A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, US prosecutors said on Wednesday.

  • Gold dust in cyberspace: fighting online fraud

    Exactly how has the dastardly business of fraud benefitted from the rise of the Internet? Just ask the Electronic Enforcements Unit (EEU) of Australian securities watchdog ASIC, which has some interesting - but scary - stories to tell.

  • Asia should follow Japan's data breach laws

    Governments in Asia need to bring data breach laws in line with Japan and Korea to ensure businesses improve the security of customer data, according to a senior CA executive.

  • Spam wars: Can they be won?

    Two Amercian men could be the first to face criminal charges related to spam after they allegedly crashed a company's computer system by re-routing tens of thousands of unsolicited emails through its servers.

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