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Spam Briefing Centre

Wasted employee time, storage and security are among the issues facing companies as they grapple with a growing influx of spam into mailboxes.

Spam has become one of the major problems facing companies today. IT managers continue to investigate a range of solutions, looking to stay on top of the lastest developments in this area.

In this Spotlight section iTnews focusses on some of the latest news in this area, to help keep readers up-to-date with what is happening in the industry.

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Aussie web retailer shamed as spammer

5 September 2008 00:08

Best Buy Australia has been fined $4,400 for sending emails to people after they had requested to be removed from the mailing list.

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Suncorp embarks on teleworking pilot

3 September 2008 00:01

Suncorp is said to be trialling teleworking at its 1,000 seat contact centre on the back of increased interest in ‘virtual’ business models.

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The A to Z of spamming exposed

29 August 2008 08:08

Spammers are fans of the alphabet according to recent research – you’re going to start wishing your name was Zebedee.

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Email libel costs £110,000

26 August 2008 07:59

A single email has cost the University of Salford £110,000 (about $237,000) after it alleged fraud in an expenses claim..

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IT guy 'shot' for email data leak

21 August 2008 14:11

A Sydney-based music website has apologised to users after it accidentally exposed over 700 user names and passwords to members of its mailing list.

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UK government plans to log every call, text and email

14 August 2008 16:06

The Home office has issued a consultation paper for a new law that would force phone companies, ISPs and network operators to record and store every phone call, web page request and text message..

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B4dly speld email? Blame the iPhone

11 August 2008 06:30

Three-quarters of people are willing to excuse spelling errors in emails sent from a mobile device like the iPhone, a survey has found.

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Faked CNN spam blitz pushes fake Flash

8 August 2008 07:44

Bogus alerts purporting to be from CNN are luring victims to over 1,000 hacked websites pushing fake, malware-infested Flash Player software, Internet security watchdogs have warned.

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Emerging countries to take spam lead

7 August 2008 16:28

The majority of the world's spam continued to be sent from the US during the second quarter of 2008 but experts predict it won’t be long till developing nations take the lead.

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Spam around 150bn messages a day

7 August 2008 07:39

Although down in recent months, around 150bn spam messages are sent every day, according to the latest quarterly Secure Computing Internet Threats Report.

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Fake 'Yahoo sold to Microsoft' spam boosts Rustock botnet

25 July 2008 14:40

A new large-scale botnet has been spotted forwarding what appears to be real news headlines about Microsoft, George Bush and Al Qaeda in an attempt to infect users.

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iAnywhere puts email on 3G iPhone

24 July 2008 16:19

The business credentials of Apple's 3G iPhone have been boosted by Sybase's iAnywhere division, which has announced enterprise email support for the device in its iAnywhere Mobile Office suite.

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Spammers tout 'nude' Angelina Jolie pix

18 July 2008 09:10

A new wave of spam messages related to Angelina Jolie are spreading with the intention to trick users into downloading and installing malware.

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Cloudmark warns on new spammer techniques

17 July 2008 07:47

Spammers are using increasingly inventive ways to circumvent email systems and find their way into inboxes.

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Spam surged in second quarter, US remains biggest culprit

16 July 2008 16:08

Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today.

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Chinese Red Cross hacker gets two years in jail

15 July 2008 09:18

A Chinese man has been sentenced to two years in jail after hacking a Red Cross web site launched for the victims of China's recent earthquake.

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Customers shun personalised marketing e-mails, study finds

7 July 2008 14:21

Marketing e-mails that include customers’ names, hobbies and other personal information could come across as “too pushy”, a U.S. study of e-mail marketing has found.

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McAfee publishes spam test results

2 July 2008 06:52

McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign..

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Social networking spam on the rise

11 June 2008 07:48

Four out five social network users have received unwanted 'friend' invitations, messages or postings over the past year, new research suggests..

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Enterprises at risk from email leaks

28 May 2008 07:44

Large enterprises continue to risk leaks from outbound email, blogs, message boards, media sharing sites and mobile devices, according to new research..



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