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• Racist spam attack hits Germany

  Spam e-mails with racist messages flooded computers in Germany on Thursday.

• E-mail takes a nastier turn

  The federal government is anxious to congratulate itself on the success of its anti-spam legislation to date. But the threat to users from unsolicited e-mail is only getting worse.

• Companies warned of corporate ID theft

  Individuals have been warned about the threat of identity theft for years. Now it's the turn of businesses.

• Serial AU spammer kicked off BigPond

  Telstra has kicked another BigPond user off its network after a two day spam campaign by the customer caught the attention of ISPs.

• Bank scam may originate from Russia

  E-mails attempting to trick customers out of their bank account details could be a Russian version of the 419 email scam, according to a security expert.

• Giving spam the network boot

  A promotion arrives in your email box from a company you've never heard of before--but is it spam? If a recent court decision is any indication, all may not be what it appears in the hotly contested world of Internet junk mail.

• U.S. Senate approves anti-spam bill

  The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday for a historic antispam bill, capping more than six years of failed congressional attempts to enact a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

• Microsoft takes on spam zombies

  Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk e-mail messages.

• US House passes antispam bill

  The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam legislation that could end more than six years of failed attempts to create a federal law restricting unsolicited commercial e-mail.

• Shorter URLs help phishers hook more victims

  Phishers are using shorter URLs for malicious sites in a bid to lend an air of legitimacy to threatening links.

• FBI plans spammer smackdown

  It's been nearly six months since President Bush signed the first federal spam law with criminal sanctions--and not one bulk e-mailer has been criminally charged under it so far.

• Storm worm botnet upgraded, prepared for attack

  The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks.

• US lawmakers: It's open season on spam

  Proposals to control the digital deluge in the US include a national "do not e-mail" list and criminal penalties for repeat offenders.

• Spammers use anti-spam protocols to bypass filters

  Spammers have discovered ways of working round protocols that were originally designed to kill spam by allowing e-mail gateways to authenticate the origin of any e-mail. This abuse effectively renders the technologies useless, according to security experts.

• Virginia files felony spam charges

  Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced Thursday that his office had made its first felony indictment under the state's antispam law.

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