Day: September 15, 2006

Spam fighter hit with $11.7 million judgment – CNET News.com

Spam fighter hit with $11.7 million judgment | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The nonprofit group behind a popular blacklist used to block spam has been hit with a multimillion-dollar judgment, but the order may not be enforceable. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ordered Wednesday that Spamhaus must pay $11,715,000 in damages to e360insight and its chief, David Linhardt, who sued the U.K.-based organization earlier this year over blacklisting. The court also barred Spamhaus from causing any e-mail sent by e360insight or Linhardt to be “blocked, delayed, altered,

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FTC shuts down four spam rings – CNET News.com

FTC shuts down four spam rings | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The Federal Trade Commission has shut down four illegal Internet spam operations, including two that hijacked computers to send sexually explicit spam. In the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Cleverlink Trading and its partners were ordered to pay $400,000 made from sending e-mail that offered the opportunity to “date lonely wives” and that violated nearly every provision of the Can-Spam Act, the FTC said in a statement on Thursday. The Can-Spam Act requires that spam e-mail messages

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Controversial spy bill advances in Senate – CNET News.com

Controversial spy bill advances in Senate | CNET News.com For more info click on above link The chairman of a key U.S. Senate panel on Thursday called for swift passage of a controversial bill criticized as an expansion of the government’s electronic spying powers. The pitch from Sen. Arlen Specter on the Senate floor arrived one day after Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee gave the green light to his National Security Surveillance Act, touted as a compromise with the White House to verify the constitutionality of programs like the National Security Agency’s terrorist surveillance program. The

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Wal-Mart demands double RFID chips with groceries – CNET News.com

Wal-Mart demands double RFID chips with groceries | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Radio frequency identification pioneer and corporate monolith Wal-Mart Stores is speeding on with its use of the track-and-trace technology. It announced Tuesday that 500 new stores and clubs will introduce RFID for case-level and pallet-level tracking before the end of the fiscal year, doubling the number of locations using it. The new deployments will all use tags based on the Gen 2 RFID standard. All Wal-Mart’s other RFID-enabled locations, which use first-generation chips, will be converted once all pallets bearing

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Microsoft wins record amount from spammer – CNET News.com

Microsoft wins record amount from spammer | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Microsoft has won what it believes to be the largest civil award against a spammer in Europe. Paul Fox, whose e-mail messages were intended to direct traffic toward his pornographic download site, was this week forced by a court order to pay Microsoft 45,000 pounds, or $84,177, for breaching the terms and conditions of its free Hotmail service. Those terms explicitly prohibit the delivery of spam to its customers.

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Symantec updates Norton products – CNET News.com

Symantec updates Norton products | CNET News.com For more info click on above link Symantec on Tuesday announced Norton AntiVirus 2007 and Norton Internet Security 2007, updated versions of the company’s widely used security software for consumers. Slated to be available later this month, both products have been updated to provide better protection and system performance, Symantec said in a statement. Norton AntiVirus 2007 protects against viruses, spyware and related risks. Norton Internet Security 2007 is a suite that includes antivirus and anti-spyware protection and adds a firewall, intrusion prevention, and for the first time includes a

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Phishers catch on to the Net’s ‘long tail’ – CNET News.com

Phishers catch on to the Net’s ‘long tail’ | CNET News.com The number of brands exploited by online con artists grew to a record 154 in July, according to a report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group. The study, released on Monday, showed that the number of brands under attack from phishing was up 20 percent from June and 12 percent from the previous record in May. The APWG findings indicate that scammers are no longer content to exploit only the best-known brands. The top 80 percent of scams were concentrated on 15 brands, according to the report.

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BE A BONO LEADS TOUGH FIELD IN GO MAN GO

Amarillo, Texas, September 15, 2006 – Spencer Childers’ homebred Be A Bono, the 2004 world champion, goes for his third straight Grade 1 win when he faces a talent-packed roster of older horses in the $100,000 Go Man Go Handicap (G1) on Saturday night at Los Alamitos. High weighted at 127 pounds, the Dan Francisco-trainee has been racing in championship form in 2006 with Grade 1 victories in the Spencer Childers California Breeders Championship (RG1) and the Vessels Maturity (G1) in his two most recent starts. His sole 2006 loss was a third in his Vessels Maturity

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Horse Stabled at Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Tested Positive for Rabies

From the Tennessee Department of Health: http://www2.state.tn.us/health/Newsreleases/090806.htm Nashville, Officials with the Tennessee Department of Health are notifying persons who attended the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration in Shelbyville of a confirmed case of rabies in a horse stabled on the grounds during the event. The horse was not involved in any of the Celebration competitions. The horse originated from Missouri and was a 3-year-old gelding (neutered male horse), buckskin (cream to tan) in color with a black mane and tail. The horse was described as small, standing approximately 14 hands (or 56 inches) at the withers, which

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Congress holds hearings on horse slaughter ban

Congress holds hearings on horse slaughter ban For more info click on above link Supporters and opponents of a proposed ban on slaughtering horses for human consumption gathered on Capitol Hill in late July for a round of hearings on the merits of the controversial legislation. With a little more than 200 co-sponsors in the House, the American Horse Slaughter Protection Act (H.R. 503) has strong bipartisan support. Many consider it to be a protective measure for the estimated 90,000 horses slaughtered for food annually in the United States. For years, horsemeat has been exported for human

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