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News (28)

• Aust Defence poised to crack down on e-mail abuse

  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.

• Media chief: Net's a 'moral-free zone'

  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.

• Top 10 security threats for 2008

  In 2008 the line between cybercrime and legitimate business will blur, Australians will find out just how many data breaches occur, smartphones will attract malware, and people will decide which group is worse: social networking sites seeking to monetise page hits or identity thieves.

• Stiff spam penalties urged in the US

  Spammers convicted under a recently enacted US antispam law could face stiff sentences under newly finalised government recommendations.

• 2005: yet another year of spam

  You can always rely on one constant in life, and at the moment it seems that constant, for the IT industry, is spam.

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• Is the world ready to fight cybercrime?

  Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.

• Spammers target IM accounts

  Growing incidents of spam attacks on some instant messaging networks are raising vexing questions about the future of one of the fastest-growing applications on the Internet.

• Next up: Universal database on spammers

  Australia's peak Internet industry body has upped the ante against unsolicited bulk e-mail senders, a move sparked by lawsuits against spammers in the United States.

• Can the Net survive filtering?

  Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.

• Blame the computer

  Is it just me, or are you also tired of technology copping the blame for what are obviously people problems?

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