New anti-spam was introduced into the House of Representatives today that allows for penalties of up to AU$1.1 million per day for sending spam, and Senator Alston has called on the United States to follow suit with similar legislation.
E-mail security provider MessageLabs has discovered a new password stealing trojan, however at this stage the company is still treating it as a low-level threat.
Not long ago, civil libertarians looked to cyberspace as the utopia of ultimate freedom, beyond the reach of restrictive technologies and government regulators.Today, that dream may be fading with the hyper-speed of Internet time.
The first virus to infect a handheld organiser has been reported in the form of a tiny file that rummages through Palm handheld computing devices, ruining their capabilities.
The publicity last week surrounding the Melissa and Papa macro viruses and the copycat attacks that followed doesn't bode well for the future of Microsoft Word and Excel in their current forms. It's been known for years that the architecture of these products, featuring embedded macro capabilities, is a bad idea and needs to be changed.
There's no shortage of tools to monitor and filter employees' use of the Internet and IT resources. But can blocking really save money?
You know not to open e-mail attachments from suspicious recipients. But what about playing a song from someone you don't know? Turns out that's another way to infect your computer with a virus.
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