Last month MySpace won the largest anti-spam payout ever made totalling US$234 million. Now the social network can add another US$6 million to their haul.This latest judgement is against Scott Ritcher based on spam he sent to users on MySpace back in August 2006. The lawsuit was started in January 2007 and went into arbitration [...]

Popularity – the elusive Holy Grail sought by many a geek during the school years. In that social setting, you paid a price for not being popular. The irony is that in today’s technology setting the reverse is true: being popular often paints a target on your back – just ask Microsoft and the thousands [...]

from the that-doesn’t-sound-good deptPoliticians have been pushing for an anti-spyware law for quite some time — mostly because it’s the sort of thing likely to draw headlines that make the politicians look good. However, it’s widely acknowledged that such laws aren’t at all necessary. Anti-fraud laws can mostly take care of the problem cases out [...]

The Federal Trade Commission this week told the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that it favors legislation granting it new powers to seek civil penalties in spyware cases.The federal agency said it wants authority to assess monetary penalties when other enforcement options–such as seeking consumer redress, or making the operators give up [...]

Barracuda Networks Inc., the worldwide leader in email and Web security appliances, today announced it has expanded authentication capabilities of its Barracuda Web Filter product line with Novell eDirectory, a popular identity management and policy control tool used by many Fortune 500 companies as well as educational organizations. This upgrade will enable the Barracuda Web [...]

Re-install Windows every three months. Windows machines tend to develop major performance problems over time — so its probably a good idea to re-install the OS every couple of months. If you’ve got your own dedicated PC for gaming, then this shouldn’t be a big deal. Re-installs don’t take all that long, and they’ll give [...]

Global security provider Symantec has launched Norton Smartphone Security, a product that, the company states, is the first consumer mobile security offering to provide a security solution for both Windows and Symbian OS run mobile phones. The solution is intended to give users a safeguard against the raft of threats and attacks aimed at mobiles.Con [...]

IDC has noted that surfing the Web remains a very dangerous endeavor as criminal hackers and bot herders increasingly corrupt websites, planting Web browser-based attacks used to steal personal information or plant malware on an unsuspecting public.And according to Andrew McKee from security vendor Check Point, browser security should be seen as an essential and [...]