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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17 July 2008 07:47
Spammers are using increasingly inventive ways to circumvent email systems and find their way into inboxes.
16 July 2008 16:08
Spam significantly increased in the second quarter of 2008, security vendor Sophos reported today.
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.
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.
2 July 2008 06:52
McAfee has released the results of its Spammed Persistently All Month campaign..
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..
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..