Dangers to your computer in cyberspace!

Source: "Longtime 'Spam King' Charged With Fraud"
By Alan Sipress, The Washington Post, June 1, 2007.

Sipress states:

Under the 2003 CAN-SPAM law, which regulates spam, bulk e-mail marketing is allowed if the sender complies with several conditions. Most notably, recipients must be allowed to opt out of the mailings, and the sender must be transparent about the source. Still, scores of big-time spammers have flouted the requirements.....

Microsoft won a $7.8 million judgment against him in 2005 for sending e-mails that falsely appeared to come from MSN and Hotmail addresses......In a separate case that year, an Oklahoma businessman won a $10 million judgment against Soloway for breaking the law regulating spam but was also unable to collect.

Check out Postini's Stat tracker, with more sad news about the huge numbers of viruses circulating in cyberspace, the huge amount of spam in our emails, and the large numbers of attacks trying to steel email addresses. I found the maps especially interesting, showing where the bad stuff originates. We clearly need some kind of international conventions to improve the protection of cyberspace from spam, viruses and other malicious attacks!