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.
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Commtouch unveiled its new defense against spam containing pictures but no text or Web hyperlinks.
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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.
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After report says millions of Americans’ phone records have been given to the National Security Agency (NSA), Bush says privacy is ”fiercely protected.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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”This is totally ridiculous. I can’t believe you’re making this argument,” Judge Harry T. Edwards told Jacob Lewis, an associate general counsel with the Federal Communications Commission.
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Sergey Kazachkov, of Voronezh in central Russia, former lead guitarist for Kazakhstan heavy metal band DLM turned science student, escaped jail after been convicted of running websites that distributed an estimated 4,000 different computer viruses.
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Postini filtered 7.6 million instant messaging (IM)conversations in April, an increase of more than 15% from March’s 6.5 million, underscoring the continued growth of corporate IM.
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