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  • 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.

  • Spammer faces up to two years in jail

    A Detroit-area man is facing at least two years in jail on charges that he sent millions of spam messages over a number of high-profile company networks in violation of the Can-Spam Act.

  • 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.

  • Legal experts urge spam leniency

    While many e-mail account holders would like to throw spammers in the slammer and throw away the key, some legal experts are arguing for leniency in enforcing the federal Can-Spam law.

  • Lawmakers pledge federal anti-spam bills

    Federal lawmakers Wednesday promised to introduce legislation this year to attack the problem of spam, with proposals to create a national "do not e-mail" list and apply criminal penalties for repeat offenders.

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