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News Lin is expected to plead guilty to charges including fraud in connection with electronic mail, as part of a deal with the US District Court to cut his sentence. A US man is facing a two-year jail sentence after being accused of sending millions of...
[12 Jan 2006]
whitepaper Also, some spam involves fraud, or includes adult-oriented material that offends recipients or that parents want to protect their children from seeing. Spam, also called unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or "junk email," aggravates many computer...
[30 Aug 2005]
News The IT security landscape has changed over recent months, with credit card fraud gangs, virus writing gangs, spammers and malicious hackers becoming more closely entwined, added Cluley. One factor may be the anti-spam legislation that has been...
[05 Jul 2005]
Comment But mail involving fraud, deliberate damage or attempts to hijack computers is a serious threat. The largest use for it is in geographically related marketing through the web but the fastest growing is in combating fraud.
[15 Feb 2005]
News Before making a purchase, users are urged to consider the same gangs sending spam offering cheap software are often also involved in identity theft, credit card fraud and also less savoury areas of the internet.
[10 Dec 2004]
News That way, ISPs and email providers could help prevent email fraud, one of the chief frustrations for anti-spam fighters. A coalition of top internet service providers has put forward a set of technical guidelines designed to stem the tide of spam.
[23 Jun 2004]
Comment In particular, there is no audit trail so you can't detect fraud and you can't comply with corporate governance requirements. The danger with anti-spam software is that you end up throwing out the baby with the bath water.
[16 Feb 2004]
News The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed that some of its customers have been tricked into revealing their online banking numbers and passwords after receiving a spam mail claiming to be from the bank.
[18 Mar 2003]
News Last week's coverage of the 'Nigerian' 419 email scam led many of you to contact us demanding to know what part ISPs and webmail providers are playing in the fight against this fraud.silicon.com spoke to a representative of Hotmail, which has...
[04 Mar 2003]
News Similarly readers may want to visit the 419 Coalition which is fighting this form of fraud. After all, no developing country wants to be inextricably linked with widespread fraud when it is trying to build bridges with the developed world.
[21 Feb 2003]
News The complaint said CN violated laws including the Lanham Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The ruling is one of the first in which damages were awarded under an amended Virginia anti-spam statute, which mandates offenders pay $25,000 for...
[17 Dec 2002]
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