A server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials and 463,582 user account passwords, according to a report published at the Black Hat conference last week.
Estimates that up to 80 percent of all e-mails are now spam show the problem hasn't gone away, but self-congratulation was still prominent as the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA) handed down its first report on the Spam Act 2003.
A major spammer who was accused of sending up to 25 million e-mails per day has settled a lawsuit with Microsoft and the state of Texas.
Microsoft wants the federal government to amend its anti-spam legislation to allow its joint venture with Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd, ninemsn, to directly pursue legal action against spammers.
A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, US prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.
If we're losing the battle against spam, how can we win the war? In this special report, ZDNet Australia presents a comprehensive resource centre for IT professionals battling spam.
Symantec is warning Internet users of a Trojan horse that removes spyware but alters the security settings in computers.
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