US couple fined $236 million for spamming

Google has reported that it continues to use manual search controls along with automated search algorithms to improve search results, despite online rumours to the contrary. The company reacted to an anonymous post on the blog...

Insecurity outfit McAfee has published a report into the last ten years of on-line crime along with lists of the top five exploits and scams perpetrated in the decade ending in December 2010. Entitled A Good Decade for...

Describing itself variously as an "Online Living Consciousness", an "internet gathering" and a "group of atoms", the one thing Anonymous, the loose coalition of Pro-WikiLeaks hacktivists, never claimed to be was organised. But a...

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In an attempt to curtail the spam epidemic affecting the world wide web, Microsoft has secured a federal court order which allows it to axe 277 domain names that are being used by hackers to control a massive network of PCs,...

Three companies have lodged formal claims with the European Commission that Google is acting anti-competitively. Two of the complaints relate to the way that it ranks web pages. The Commission has asked Google to explain its...

The UK is not doing enough to deter spammers and combat the use of malicious computer code to damage users' computers, according to a study commissioned by the European Commission. The report examined the action taken in all 27...

Microsoft Corp. seems all geared up to crack down on malicious advertising, as the software company has announced to take legal action against as many as five advertisers alleged with inserting ads containing malicious codes on...

Security researchers at Sophos have charged BBC over violation of laws after the Corporation has admitted to hacking as many as 22,000 PCs without the users’ consent, and the hacked computers were subsequently converted...

As far as 'green' computing is concerned, the IT industry does not have a particularly good record. In the past, it has been poor in a whole range of 'green' areas, including power consumption, the use of toxic substances,...

The European Commission wants laws to be passed across Europe that would force telecoms companies to tell customers when personal data security has been breached. Security breach laws are common in the US but are still...

Interception of email poses a real threat to UK law firms, placing the integrity of their communications at risk, according to an industry survey.  The survey, commissioned by specialist security provider Securecoms,...

Internet management specialists have called on the government to take more action to tackle the root causes of internet crime. The new demands come in the wake of last week's House of Lord's inquiry into Personal Internet...

A survey by PineApp of 400 medium to large organisations in the UK has found that whilst 97% have anti-spam solutions, half of the respondents complained that they were not dealing effectively with the growing problem of image...

Almost gone are the days when banks were robbed by a bunch of mean looking guys with ram trucks, balaclavas, guns, and get-away cars, holding staff and innocent customers hostage.Prospective robbers now face armed security...