A contentious campaign to bump up the bandwidth bills of spammers by flooding their sites with data has been dropped.…
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DVD copy protection strengthened
DVDs will be harder to copy thanks to new anti-piracy measures devised by copy protection firm Macrovision. The pirated DVD…
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Bad e-mail habits sustains spam
The ‘bad behaviour’ of e-mail users is helping to sustain the spam industry, a new study has found. According to…
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Net fingerprints combat attacks
Eighty large net service firms have switched on software to spot and stop net attacks automatically. The system creates digital…
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Have hackers recruited your PC?
More than one million computers on the net have been hijacked to attack websites and pump out spam and viruses.…
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The pirates with no profit motive
Two men who were part of a huge network of internet software pirates, known as Drink Or Die, have been…
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Security scares spark browser fix
Microsoft is working on a new version of its Internet Explorer web browser. The revamp has been prompted by Microsoft’s…
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Warnings about junk mail deluge
The amount of spam circulating online could be about to undergo a massive increase, say experts. Anti-spam group Spamhaus is…
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