Conficker Attacks Mid Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust in UK
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Monday, 08 February 2010 12:00
Conficker, the most prominent virus, which recently hit UK's Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, infected near about 120 systems of the Trust's healthcare facilities, as per the statement issued by the Trust on January 28, 2010.
Court’s Judgment Favors Tagged.com in a Lawsuit against Spammer
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Monday, 08 February 2010 12:00
Tagged.com, the social-networking website, declared during the last week of January 2010 that following a judgment over a lawsuit it filed against Erik Vogeler, the company won $201,975. Vogeler had been charged with victimizing members of Tagged.com by dispatching spam e-mails that contained web-links directing users to a dating site.
According to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), CommSec (the stock trading arm of the Commonwealth Bank) has agreed to take necessary action to correct the problem emerged due to no option of "unsubscribe" in e-mails. The security subsidiary has been punished to pay a fine of $55,000 for breaching the Spam Act.
According to OFT, i.e. the Office of Fair Trading, nearly 10% of the Brits - over 4 Million- across U.K report that they have sometime or the other sent reply e-mails to online phishing scams, as reported by BBC News on February 1, 2010.
MI5 Report Accuses China of Spying British Businesses
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Monday, 08 February 2010 06:00
A report written by the Britain's intelligence agency, MI5, which was actually issued more than 12 months back, has claimed that China was burgling and bugging the business executives of the UK. This report has been leaked recently.
