The software tool used by Google's Gmail to stop spammers has been cracked, leading to a big increase in spam sent from Gmail accounts last month, according to security firm MessageLabs.
Separate research by security vendors McAfee and Marshal Software suggests that the industry is winning the war on spam, with two of the most common forms of spam-related scams on the decline.
Technology managers are struggling with a peak period in spam activity which security vendors say has hit one of its highest points ever.
Miscreants have again adapted the Warezov Trojan horse to target Skype users, Websense Security Labs warned last week.
Australia's Spam Act will come into law on 11 April 2004, 120 days after receiving Royal Assent, the federal government announced today.
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Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".
Online fraud scams are increasingly turning their sights to credit unions, according to a new report.
The rise in online identity fraud has companies on the hook: Either educate customers or lose them.
Google's vice-president of engineering was in London this week to talk to potential recruits about just what lies behind that search page.
ZDNet Australia takes a long hard look at the top tech stories of 2002, a year characterised by corporate collapses, broadband proliferation and slow recovery.
Microsoft plans to officially launch Office 2003 Beta 2 on Monday, a release that will include a public preview available to several hundred thousand beta testers and businesses, said sources.
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