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Government intervenes in warrantless wiretapping lawsuit

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.

Commtouch unveils image-based spam defense

Commtouch unveiled its new defense against spam containing pictures but no text or Web hyperlinks.

Verizon sued over NSA surveillance

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.

US spy agency building database of every call ever made

After report says millions of Americans' phone records have been given to the National Security Agency (NSA), Bush says privacy is ''fiercely protected.''

Email bomber heads back to court

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.

Zombie master Jeanson Ancheta sentenced to 5 years in prison

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.

New York man to settle in Washington's first spyware case

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.

US demand for college wiretaps questioned

''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.

Russian virus distributor convicted

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.

Corporate instant messaging on the rise

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.

Court slams former spam king over spyware

A default judgment against Sanford ''Spamford'' Wallace and his company, SmartBOT.Net, orders them to give up $4,089,500 in ill-gotten gains.

Hacker charged with stealing information from military

Matthew R. Decker, 21, was indicted Tuesday in Wichita, Kansas, with ''accessing without authorization'' U.S. Army computers and with ''unlawfully possessing, with intent to defraud,'' 531 credit card numbers and account information.

MPAA releases new piracy loss data

The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) today released new information about piracy from a comprehensive study done by LEK Consulting that the association is using as a roadmap to help fight piracy worldwide.

Spam King Alan Ralsky not jailed

The FBI's Detroit field office told one journalist that Spam King Alan Ralsky was not arrested or held, is not in custody, and has not been indicted.

Consumers in the dark about latest tech buzzwords

According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive for Windows Live, 71% of respondents have never heard of RSS, 46% indicated they aren't clear on the definition of Internet tagging and 32% indicated they are not sure how best to describe VoIP -- three common services that are quickly gaining acceptance and popularity with Americans who use the Internet.

Spam King Alan Ralsky rumored to be in jail

The spamming underworld is freaking out on the rumor that Ralsky is going to cough up some sort of plea bargain that involves ratting just about everyone out.

Bush administration to intervene in ATT surveillance case

The United States government filed a Statement of Interest Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against ATT, announcing that the government would assert the military and state secrets privilege and intervene to seek dismissal of the case.

Spam zombies from outer space

Spammers could soon use zombie computers in a totally new way. Infected computers could run programs that spy into a person's email, mine it for information, and generate realistic-looking replies.

U.S. Army sergeant pleads guilty in child predator case

Sgt. Joseph J. Wunderler, 29, of Ft. Belvoir, Va., engaged in numerous sexually oriented chat sessions on the Internet with a person he believed to be a fourteen year-old girl.

Top U.S. universities failing in online privacy

A national survey of online privacy practices in higher education, conducted by Bentley College and Watchfire, found that only 65 of the top 236 doctoral universities and liberal arts colleges in the U.S. have privacy notices linked to their home page, yet nearly all these schools engage in practices that potentially pose a privacy risk.