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New York man to settle in Washington's first spyware case
Mon, 08 May 2006 22:42:00 GMT
Gary T. Preston, of Jamaica, N.Y., will pay $7,200 in legal costs and attorneys' fees. Investigators allege that Preston permitted Secure Computer's Web domains to be registered in his name and provided his credit card to make company purchases.

Zombie master Jeanson Ancheta sentenced to 5 years in prison
Tue, 09 May 2006 05:51:00 GMT
Jeanson James Ancheta, 21, was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for using malicious software to seize control of 400,000 computers and then selling access to the zombie machines to spammers and hackers.

Email bomber heads back to court
Thu, 11 May 2006 17:07:00 GMT
David Lennon, 18, used an e-mail-bombing program called Avalanche to send approximately 5 million messages to his former employer in 2004. The flood crashed the company's e-mail server.

US spy agency building database of every call ever made
Thu, 11 May 2006 17:18:00 GMT
After report says millions of Americans' phone records have been given to the National Security Agency (NSA), Bush says privacy is ''fiercely protected.''

Verizon sued over NSA surveillance
Sat, 13 May 2006 23:39:00 GMT
Attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer claim the carrier violated privacy laws by turning over phone records to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for a secret government surveillance program.

Mon, 15 May 2006 11:20:00 GMT news, technology, computers, security Commtouch unveils image-based spam defense Commtouch unveiled its new defense against spam containing pictures but no text or Web hyperlinks.
Mon, 15 May 2006 11:20:00 GMT
Commtouch unveiled its new defense against spam containing pictures but no text or Web hyperlinks.

Government intervenes in warrantless wiretapping lawsuit
Mon, 15 May 2006 11:29:00 GMT
Early Saturday morning, the Department of Justice made good its threat to file a motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by EFF against ATT over its collaboration with the NSA's massive program to wiretap and data-mine Americans' communications.