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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bulk mailer faces criminal charges

  A bulk e-mailer in Florida has been charged with electronically breaking into a massive data warehouse and stealing gigabytes of personal information on Americans, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Swedish bank hit by 'biggest ever' online heist

  Swedish bank Nordea has told ZDNet UK that it has been stung for between seven and eight million Swedish krona (around AU$1,500,000) in what security company McAfee is describing as the "biggest ever" online bank heist.

• Spam wars: Can they be won?

  Two Amercian men could be the first to face criminal charges related to spam after they allegedly crashed a company's computer system by re-routing tens of thousands of unsolicited emails through its servers.

• 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.

• MySpace hit by security breach

  A banner ad on MySpace containing a Windows exploit may have infected over a million machines with spyware

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