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The first months of 2008 has seen spam levels rise with the economic situation and Olympics adding fuel to the fire. Most spam is sent to non-existent addresses, but that can still generate annoying messages for genuine users. Social networking giant Facebook has been awarded a hefty US$837m judgment against a Canadian spammer under the US Can-Spam Act. An overwhelming majority of Americans claim to feel safe online, according to a recent poll. Some emails are important written records you might one day have to rely on in court, says Tamzin Matthew. Consumer peer-to-peer (p2p) internet applications are growing at a blistering pace. Evidence is everywhere: worldwide, users send more than 10 billion instant messages every day (J.D. Powers and Associates); Skype's 136 million users account for 7 percent of international long-distance traffic (Morgan Stanley); video file sharing may account for up to 60 percent of all internet traffic (CacheLogic). An internet security nonprofit has designated the two latest versions of the popular RealPlayer as "badware." Yet another politician has suggested that blocking the web can save us from terrorists. If only life was that simple. 'Nasa Hacker' Gary McKinnon has been granted the right to appeal to the House of Lords to try and stop extradition proceedings that would see him tried in America.
All fun and games until someone loses a bank account. Being public enemy number one is a lot more mundane than you might think, the notorious hacker tells Paul Fisher as he awaits extradition. The Netcordia NetMRI product is an appliance-based solution. The hardware is actually quite compact, so the system has a very small footprint. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today halted trading on shares of 35 companies believed to be involved in recent pump-and-dump spam campaigns. Our fourth annual survey of our readers’ hopes, fears and exasperations provides a fascinating insight into the industry. Ron Condon reports A worm posing as a New Year's greeting has been ranked as last month's most widespread virus, despite not appearing until 30 December. Spammers came out in force last month generating a deluge of unsolicited email that "severely threatened corporate networks", a monitoring report claimed today. Most of the industry regards compliance as annoying, at best, but Jan Babiak tells René Millman why this risks missing a great opportunity How can you be sure your security works unless someone tried to crack it - and failed? Rob Buckley delves into the world of penetration testing. Washington state has settled a lawsuit with two Californian spammers accused of bombarding the Seattle School District and other organizations with junk email. Though Microsoft has made drastic security improvements within its upcoming Vista operating system, there will be some usability hiccups within its new security features and plenty of room for security developers to sell aftermarket products, the Yankee Group said this week.