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  • AU$189m govt porn blocking plan unveiled

    Prime Minister John Howard last night announced a Coalition plan to clean up Internet porn, in an effort to woo Christian voters.

  • OpenOffice macro worm exposes bad bunny

    update: Sophos has warned users of the multi-platform OpenOffice productivity tool not to open any files named "badbunny.odg" -- which releases a worm exposing users to an image of a man in a bunny suit and a scantily clad woman performing a sexual act in woodland.

  • Microsoft wins record amount from spammer

    Microsoft has won what it believes to be the largest civil award against a spammer in Europe.

  • IIA dismisses Labor's anti-porn plans

    Federal Labor's proposal to block children's access to pornography and graphic violence online has been dismissed by the Internet Industry Association (IIA) as unnecessary.

  • New e-mail charges for some users

    Two of the world's biggest e-mail account providers are planning to charge senders an optional fee to route e-mail directly to a user's mailbox without first passing through junk mail filters, representatives of both companies say.

  • Kama Sutra worm hype may bite back

    The Kama Sutra worm's anticipated bombshell ended up fizzling out, but experts are still divided on whether the brouhaha over the threat was justified.

  • Google fixes China search bugs

    A day after Google's buggy censorship of sites for Chinese-users was revealed, the search giant responded by fixing its filters so topics such as beer and jokes are no longer deleted.

  • What Google censors in China

    Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.

  • Kama Sutra worm seduces PC users

    A new e-mail worm that spreads under the guise of pornographic content has jumped to the top of the worldwide virus charts.

  • Florida spammer cops multi-billion dollar judgement

    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.

  • Sophos: Gates will be proved wrong about spam

    Bill Gates' prediction of January 2004 that spam would be "a thing of the past" within two years has virtually no chance of coming true, according to security company Sophos this week.

  • Google fixes glitch that unleashed flood of porn

    A technology glitch temporarily turned Google's new personal listings service, Google Base, into a vast, virtual red-light district earlier this week.

  • Phishers lure victim with text message

    A Chinese man has been conned out of more than AU$20,000 after falling victim to a text message-based phishing scam.

  • Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran text

    A new Trojan horse is serving as a moral guard of sorts, displaying text from the Koran if users visit what could be a pornographic Web site, Sophos warned on Monday.

  • Brad Pitt virus targets Microsoft

    Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Britney Spears are subjects of a virus scam that is attempting to recruit computers for a denial-of-service attack on Microsoft.

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