The Australian Department of Defence is poised to re-examine the integrity of its network following the discovery that its staff may have been indulging in pornographic e-mail activity that has triggered alarm bells for at least one major enterprise beyond its network.
As many as five New South Wales police officers have been sacked for sending pornography over the police email system, with a further six threatened with dismissal.
Health care-related e-mail messages, primarily those marketing diet pills and Viagra, were the leading category of spam delivered to in-boxes in November.
News that 50 Australia Post managers were caught sending pornographic e-mail is doubtless to spark off yet another bout of anti-Internet hysteria.
The president of media giant News Corp warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy.
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Family First has expelled one of its election candidates over a pornography scandal.
The concept of a .xxx domain for sex-oriented Web sites has had its share of critics, but attorney Eric Sinrod believes it is an idea whose time has come.
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Two MIT graduate students say they found personal and corporate information on used disk drives bought off the Internet and at swap meets.
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