New York state authorities have arrested the e-mail marketer "Buffalo Spammer," in the state's first criminal case against a junk mailer.
A Queensland man has received a two-year suspended sentence for spamming up to four million people and placing misleading messages on Internet bulletin boards in an attempt to hike up the value of shares in a US company.
A United States-based ISP has been awarded US$11.2 billion in a judgement against a Florida spammer who sent millions of unsolicited e-mails to its users.
Governments in Asia need to bring data breach laws in line with Japan and Korea to ensure businesses improve the security of customer data, according to a senior CA executive.
Spam will overhaul legitimate e-mail by July 2003, according to e-mail managed service provider MessageLabs, a situation highlighted when many workers returned to their computers post-Christmas to e-mail accounts stuffed with spam.
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.
Microsoft on Thursday in the United States plans to unveil new antispam tools for its MSN and Hotmail services, noting that it now blocks 2.4 billion e-mail messages targeting subscriber in-boxes every day.
There's a 50 percent chance your unprotected Windows PC will be compromised within 12 minutes of going online, says security vendor Sophos.
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.
Australian free e-mail provider freemail.com.au is currently being bombarded by servers around the globe after a spammer's decision to include the company in junk messages promoting everything from hair-loss treatments to Viagra.
Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced Thursday that his office had made its first felony indictment under the state's antispam law.
Microsoft and New York's attorney general took aim at spam Thursday, with a series of lawsuits.
The Direct Marketing Association intends to help the FBI nab spammers--and help preserve its members' ability to send commercial e-mail.
Federal lawmakers Wednesday promised to introduce legislation this year to attack the problem of spam, with proposals to create a national "do not e-mail" list and apply criminal penalties for repeat offenders.
While many e-mail account holders would like to throw spammers in the slammer and throw away the key, some legal experts are arguing for leniency in enforcing the federal Can-Spam law.
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