Pornographic e-mails have shot up by almost 350 percent since June, according to security solutions provider Clearswift's latest spam index.
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.
E-mail security provider MessageLabs has discovered a new password stealing trojan, however at this stage the company is still treating it as a low-level threat.
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.
Spam may be a pest, but a new report looks on the positive side, saying it will keep anti-spam firms in business for many more years to come.
The federal government intends to introduce legislation that will ban unsolicited commercial e-mail, the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Senator Richard Alston announced today.
Just pause before you forward that e-mail joke or petition to your friends and colleagues. You will probably find you are straining the relationship.
The National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) has recommended the introduction of anti-spamming laws, whilst simultaneously playing down their potential benefits in a report released today.
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