CNET - A federal court on Tuesday sentenced a New York man to a 30-month prison term for sending unsolicited marketing e-mail to 1.2 million AOL subscribers, according to a Reuters report. -- read full article
PC World - A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 30 months in prison Tuesday for blasting AOL subscribers with spam over a four-month... -- read full article
AP - Congress has asked Embarq Corp. about its work with a company that tracks online subscribers' Web traffic for advertising purposes, part of growing concern about Internet privacy. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A group in Brazil has unlocked the phone to run on other carriers' networks, and a hacker team has enabled independent apps to run on Apple's latest handset. -- read full article
CNET - Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a "shadow economy" that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan. -- read full article
AP - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.
AP - Democrat Barack Obama warned Wednesday about the danger of "fighting the last war" as he pledged to focus on emerging nuclear, biological and cyber threats if elected president.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company's complaints may have as much to do with privacy and competition as they do with its own strategic interests in Yahoo's search business. -- read full article
Reuters - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30
months in prison on Tuesday for sending spam e-mails to more
than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that
foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system. -- read full article
PC World - The chain-of-command of a cybercrime gang is not unlike the Mafia, an evolution that shows how online crime is becoming a... -- read full article
PC World - Symantec has built more than 300 speed and performance enhancements into its forthcoming security products, now in public beta. -- read full article
AFP - A New Zealand teenager who confessed to a central role in a global cyber-crime ring which caused millions of dollars in losses walked free from court Tuesday with police wanting to secure his skills.
