FBI Shuts Down Unclassified E-Mail System
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The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach.
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A Microsoft-backed proposal for verifying the source of e-mail has been shelved by the Internet engineers working to turn it from specification to standard, in a final blow for antispam technology Sender ID.
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WASHINGTON - Moving against Internet crime, the Justice Department on Wednesday disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and was engaged in a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin targeted at computer servers that allowed users to illegally share music, movies, software and games.    The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
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Plus: Most email over holidays will be spam. [News.com Extra]
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America Online said yesterday that it has seen a substantial decline in unsolicited e-mails this year, though some anti-spam experts said the company may be the only Internet provider experiencing such a drop-off.
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The Pentagon on Tuesday said  computer hackers gained access to an unclassified e-mail system  in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but declined  comment on a report that the Chinese army was responsible.
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A U.S. court has temporarily shut  down an operation that used "spam" e-mail to drum up customers  for a fraudulent work-at-home scheme, the U.S. Federal Trade  Commission said on Tuesday.
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to post corporate and government documents online anonymously.A site known as Wikileaks.org has been taken offline in the U.S. due to a court order from the U.S. District Court in San Francisco. However, the site remains online in other countries, including Belgium and Germany.The order in the U.S. came after a Swiss bank, Julius Baer, earlier this month filed a complaint against the site and San Mateo, California-based Dynadot, Wikileaks&#39; domain-name registry, for posting several hundred of the bank&#39;s documents.Some of those documents allegedly reveal that Julius Baer was involved in offshore money laundering and tax evasion in the Cayman Islands for customers in several countries, including the U.S.The court ordered that &quot;Dynadot shall immediately clear and remove all DNS hosting records for the wikileaks.org domain name,&quot; according to court documents. It also said that Dynadot should prevent the domain name from resolving to the wikileaks.org Web site or any other Web site or server other than a blank park page until further notice.A spokesman for Julius Baer could not be reached for comment Monday.According to its Web site, the purpose of Wikileaks, founded in 2006, is to develop &quot;an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis.&quot;Wikileaks has been plagued by controversy since its inception, coming under fire from institutions whose confidential documents have been posted on the site and from critics who have questioned the motives of the site&#39;s founders. Still, others have praised the site for supporting the free dissemination of information.Wikileaks posted a press statement on its site about the U.S. order, calling it &quot;clearly unconstitutional&quot; and said it &quot;exceeds its jurisdiction.&quot;
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A Las Vegas pornography operation  that sent out hundreds of thousands of sexually explicit "spam"  e-mail messages has been temporarily shut down in the first  case of federal spam laws being used against sex marketers,  U.S. regulators said on Tuesday.
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typically e-mailed as enticements to bogus sites that endanger users&#39; systems and expose their personal information -- is limited in scope
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6 -- A federal judge Thursday dismissed all charges against a Chinese American woman accused of using a sexual affair with an FBI agent to gain unauthorized access to classified documents.
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AOL is the latest and largest company to back away from Microsoft&#39;s Sender ID software, designed to cut spam by identifying the source of the email.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Wednesday shut down a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games and, separately, has embarked a nationwide campaign against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin. The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
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German police have shut down an international phishing scam that may have cost victims hundreds of thousands of euros.
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In order to stop the spread of spam, Microsoft will start charging users who use Outlook or Outlook Express to access e-mail. It will stop being free in April of 2005.
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Blog: An unknown attack causes the Defense Department to shut down over a thousand computers.
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Spammers have knocked out the e-mail service for many of Tiscali's customers, the net service provider says.