The Bush administration on Tuesday urged Congress to enact a new law criminalising pornographic and fraudulent spam.
Telstra has kicked another BigPond user off its network after a two day spam campaign by the customer caught the attention of ISPs.
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.
The Australian Communications Authority (ACA) is stepping up its anti-spam campaign by deploying forensic technology allowing it to closely examine e-mails and act against spammers.
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.
There's a fine line between viruses and spam, they are both common nuisances and tie up your inbox with unwanted mail. With systems in place to deal with viruses, how does one opt out of receiving spam.
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.
As hardcore criminals step up their spamming, experts believe that nine out of 10 of all emails may soon be unsolicited junk.
Almost a quarter of the world's spam in the last three months of 2005 was sent from computers in the United States, according to UK antivirus company Sophos.
In what could prove to be one of the great second acts in Internet history, erstwhile king of spam Sanford Wallace takes centre stage this week as exhibit A in a federal crackdown on invasive online advertising software.
Proposals to control the digital deluge in the US include a national "do not e-mail" list and criminal penalties for repeat offenders.
A small Australian ISP has defended its practice of sending unsolicited commercial e-mails to addresses listed in the Yellow Pages.
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.
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