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Admit to security breaches, companies told
News The EU's online security body is calling for laws to force companies to reveal when their computer systems have been breached. Read more here.silicon.com has been calling for such laws under its Full Disclosure campaign, which has already seen... [27 May 2008]
Avoiding Unforeseen Consequences When Drafting Anti-spam Legislation: Some Key Technical Issues to Consider
White Paper As part of this analysis, the white paper cites definitions and operative language found in existing state anti-spam laws in order to provide helpful contrasts to the language in pending federal bills. [10 Apr 2008]
ISPs' traffic handling in the spotlight
News The event also signals a clear revival of a debate over whether web neutrality laws are needed. But opponents, including the network operators, say they deserve flexibility to manage their networks as they see fit to serve their customers... [25 Feb 2008]
Top 10 security stories of the year
News This year has seen a shift from viruses, botnets and spam swamping the security headlines, to the loss of personal information by private and public organisations - leading to calls for better data protection and privacy laws. [13 Dec 2007]
Spam Filtering: Building a More Accurate Filter
White Paper The growth of spam has become such a problem that the US Congress has passed laws prohibiting unsolicited email and yet spam continues to proliferate. This white paper discusses the many problems spam creates for organizations and why controlling... [26 Nov 2007]
E-mail Compliance: Security Solutions for Regulatory Requirements
White Paper New laws require even more diligent archiving and reporting. Information Technology professionals are tasked with keeping e-mail servers in perfect working order, reducing the amount of incoming spam and protecting their networks from viruses and... [26 Nov 2007]
Spam surge emanating from the Far East
News The security vendor also noted a drop in spam using Hong Kong (dot-hk) TLDs, which could be a result of the recent enactment of anti-spam laws in the country. There has been a significant rise in the amount of spam originating from Chinese domains... [14 Aug 2007]
The CAN-SPAM Act: How New Legislation Will Impact Nonprofit Email Communications and What to Expect in 2004
White Paper The CAN-SPAM Act preempts stricter state laws regulating spam and legitimizes sending unsolicited commercial email, as long as the message is not fraudulent or pornographic, or message includes a valid address for the sender and a commercial label... [23 Jul 2007]
Spam king slapped with MySpace suit
News In the suit, filed last week in US District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, MySpace accuses Wallace of violating state and federal laws including the federal Can-Spam Act and California's anti-spam and anti-phishing... [28 Mar 2007]
Spam King gets a MySpace suit
News The News Corp-owned social-networking behemoth cited violations of multiple state and US anti-spam laws, including California statutes and the federal Can-Spam Act, in its case against Richter, who was the proprietor of a site called OptInRealBig... [23 Jan 2007]
UK companies 'flouting spam laws'
News Many UK companies are failing to comply with regulations governing the sending of unsolicited emails, according to a survey released by a direct marketing services vendor. The survey, published by CDMS, claims 31 per cent of UK companies do not... [08 Jan 2007]
Fighting Spam While Maintaining Free Access to Public Information
White Paper The municipal government of Skovde, Sweden dealt with a growing spam problem within the confines of laws and customs that protect communications with government agencies. By installing Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam software, it stopped spam from... [07 Sep 2006]
Spammers dust off their botnet passports
News Expect some of these laws to become EU directives later this year. Criminals who remotely infect PCs for the purpose of using them to relay spam messages are targeting new countries and regions in order to increase the number of machines they can... [26 Jul 2006]
Leader: Time for tougher spam laws
Leader So you can understand both this publication's hope and depression at recent news the UK government may revise our flawed anti-spam laws - hope that they'll get it right this time around, depression that it's taken so long to come about.silicon.com... [19 Jul 2006]
Give us open access to Whois data, says US gov't
News The agency on Tuesday called access to the Whois databases, which contain contact information for website operators, "critical to the agency's consumer protection laws". The official statement comes after an address by FTC commissioner John... [28 Jun 2006]
