Hong Kong Acts Against Spam in Telecommunications
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Text of report by Radio TV Hong Kong Radio 3 audio website on 28 May  Starting from Friday [1 June], people who send electronic spam could be jailed for five years and fined 1m dollars [approx 128,000 US].
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The Dutch government&#39;s telecommunications agency OPTA, responsible for regulating spam has flexed its regulatory muscles by issuing three separate anti-spamming fines this Tuesday.
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One in seven spam mails worldwide was sent from South Korea this year, according to a security software firm which tracks the online nuisance.
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We're being inundated by spam.  How could community-based approaches help?
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A technique originally designed to analyse DNA sequences is the latest weapon in the war against spam. An algorithm named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits) can catch nearly 97 per cent of spam.
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New software allows recipients of spam to band together to target known websites behind the messages. The idea is to bombard the sites with messages, slowing them down and making them more expensive to run.
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Security firm Sophos said that many home users&#39; computers are sending out spam because they have had their broadband internet connections exploited.
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Plans to combat spam are in trouble because Microsoft wants too much power, argues technology analyst Bill Thompson. The internet relies on a large number of technical standards which define in precise and
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By KING, David  Telecom says it will look at whether it will compensate business customers hit by email problems.   The telephone company's internet service provider (ISP) Xtra has been hit with problems associated with record amounts of spam in recent days.
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Hong Kong police said they were investigating an Internet service that posts bogus e-mails to unwitting recipients claiming to be from the police and other official organisations.
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For a year, Microsoft Corp. has extolled the virtues of the Can-Spam Act, which Congress passed in late 2003 to crack down on purveyors of unwanted bulk e-mail.  But some think the software giant is engaged in its own spamming.  -The Washington Post
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&quot;Many home users&#39; computers are sending out spam because they have had their broadband Internet connections exploited by remote hackers.
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Spammers may be about to get a taste of their own medicine. A British company is today launching software that it claims will allow computer users to hit back at the mass mailers who clog up our inboxes with
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The Dutch telecom and postal watchdog OPTA has levied fines as high as 42,500 euros ($57,540) against several individuals and small companies for sending out spam messages.
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New service offers spam, virus filtering for small and mid-sized businesses.
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A rule prohibiting mobile-phone spam adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month doesn't prohibit phone-to-phone text messaging, but FCC officials believe the new rule, combined with a 13-year-old law, should protect U.S. mobile phone customers against unsolicited commercial e-mail.
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Email spammers will face new controls on their unsolicited advertising under proposed legislation introduced by Singapore.