For the first time, senior representatives from regulatory agencies in Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and the Republic of Korea will attend and present at this year’s Australian Communications and Media Authority/International Telecommunication Union (ITU) International Training Program.
Chris Chapman, Chairman of the ACMA, and Dr Eun-Ju Kim, Head of the ITU Regional Office for Asia and the [...]
In January this year, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) issued infringement notices to the value of $110,000 to Optus Networks for allegedly sending electronic messages without accurate sender identification in contravention of the Spam Act 2003.
Seven months later, the ACMA found SmartyHost guilty of breaching the Spam Act for continuing to send commercial [...]
Vodafone Hutchison Australia was slapped a $110,000 penalty by the Australian Communications and Media Authority after investigation of alleged breaches of the Spam Act, a media release from the government regulator reported.
The alleged breach arose from a marketing campaign where VHA together with two other companies, media agency New Dialogue and content aggregator Big [...]
Facebook has won $711 million in damages against Sanford Wallace, a spammer, the InformationWeek website recently reported.
The court documents according to the InformationWeek report indicate that Wallace and an associate spammed Facebook users with phishing messages. Those who responded by clicking on the links and submitted login information to phishing sites allowed Wallace and his [...]
An increase in the volume of spam relating to the Bredolab Trojan was highlighted in the the October 2009 report by MessageLabs Intelligence.
Bredolab is a Trojan that arrives in the form of a zip attachment to an email and is designed to give the sender complete control of the target computer. The most frequently [...]
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