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MySpace wins record payout in case against spammers
'Spam Kings' Wallace and Rines fined maximum amount under federal law.
14 May 2008
Yahoo! searchers to get McAfee site advice
SiteAdvisor data to help check security of search results.
09 May 2008
Security experts gather in Europe
Anti-malware insights pooled at AMTSO, CARO and EICAR meetings.
07 May 2008
Users divided about customer liability for online fraud losses
Many users worried about lack of knowledge.
06 May 2008
May issue of VB published
The May issue of Virus Bulletin is now available for subscribers to download.
01 May 2008
Cracked CAPTCHAs used to create malicious blogs
Blogs on Google's blogging system redirect to spam sites.
25 April 2008
Mass attack infects over half a million web pages
United Nations and UK Government sites among those infected by SQL injection.
24 April 2008
More than 50% of users regularly double-check for false positive spam filtering
Only 12% of users trust their spam filter sufficiently not to bother sifting through spam folder.
16 April 2008
Phishing on rise, but anti-phishers fighting back
As UK banking body reports major increase in phishes, PayPal unveils blocking strategy.
16 April 2008
China-Tibet row spills over into malware attacks
Both sides of debate targeted to spread malicious code.
16 April 2008
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