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REV KING APPEALS CASE
Barely a week after he was convicted and sentenced to death, the General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly, Emeka Ezeuko, aka, Rev. King, on Wednesday, filed an appeal against his conviction and sentence by Justice Joseph Oyewole of an Ikeja High Court. >>> read more |
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Dutch spammer gets $97,000 fine
A Dutchman has been fined €75,000 (over $97,000) for a 14-month spam campaign thought to be behind over 9 billion spam emails.
The man, whose name has not been released, controlled spam flooding from US-based zombies, sent to email addresses also gathered from US sources. Much of his spam was advertising, again on behalf of foreign companies.
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Bad news spams carrying trojans
A sizeable wave of spams has been seeded in the last 24 hours, leading with a selection of unpleasant headlines focusing on the recent storms hitting Europe, teenage murderers, Muslim genocide and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
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Koreans arrested for 1.6 billion spam blitz
Two Korean men have been arrested on suspicion of being behind a campaign of spam and phishing responsible for sending out 1.6 billion emails in a four-month period late last year.
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Spams hiding in real emails
Spam watchers at Symantec have reported on a sneaky new technique being put to use by spammers - hiding their advertising in mails disguised as legitimate newsletters.
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Turing Test to combat phone spam
Electronics and telecoms giant NEC has released details of a new product with which it plans to fight the evils of phone spam.
VoIP spam, which in some circles has been dubbed SPIT (short for SPam over Internet Telephony), is a pest which first began showing up in the middle of 2006
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THE UK'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
The UK's criminal justice system is struggling to keep up with the international scope and sophistication of internet-enabled crime, and will need a new skills framework as well as help from the private sector in order to cope, according to a study published last week.
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Close e-crime 'doors' firms told
Businesses have been warned that "closing doors and windows" in cyberspace is as important as in their actual offices, in the fight against crime.
Police, companies and experts looked at ways of tackling the growing problem of internet crime at a conference.
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SAN FRANCISCO - E-CRIME BOOM
SAN FRANCISCO -- Just like e-commerce, electronic crime is a booming business, according to a survey released by the Computer Security Institute and the San Francisco FBI Computer Intrusion Squad on Wednesday.
The study found that 70 percent of CSI's 585 member companies that responded to its survey detected the unauthorized use of their computer systems in the last 12 months -- up from 62 percent the year before.
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Biggest 419 bust in history | 310 scammers nabbed
The FBI and Spanish police have arrested 310 people in Malaga, Spain in connection with a €100m bogus (email) lottery scam run by Nigerian gangs. It is the biggest 419 bust in history, and may result in drastic reductions of scam mails.
The operation, codenamed Nile, centered on a mob which operated from Southern Spain. No less than four hundred officers from the Spanish police, the FBI and the US Postal Service were involved with the investigation, which began in 2003.
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