Coca-Cola has been issued with a formal warning over a spam marketing campaign but it was spared a monetary penalty, unlike the three other companies involved, which included Vodafone.
The US remains the world's biggest spammer, according to security firm Sophos, which today released its quarterly report on the world's top spam-offending countries -- dubbed the "Dirty Dozen".
If you use Yahoo Mail you should soon be seeing a significant reduction in the number of e-mail scams purporting to be from eBay and PayPal.
The European Union's antispam directive, passed in July, has been ignored by most EU member states because it will not stop the spam problem, according to research published Tuesday
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) warned that violators of the Australian Spam Act will be pursued, following a meeting with the Federal Police High Tech Crime Unit earlier this week.
Cybercrime poses a growing threat to companies and governments around the world, yet experts are concerned law makers and judicial systems are still not equipped to provide an adequate response.
The Spam Act 2003 has led to the closure of several major Australian-based spammers, the Australian Communications Authority (ACA) claimed today.
It is vital that the tech industry raises awareness of the scale of the problem of junk e-mail, industry experts said.
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