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Minister: Government systems battle regular email attack

A Home Office minister has confirmed GCHQ's assertion that government systems are hit by around 20,000 malicious emails a month Read more

16 December, 2010 by Kable

Osborne: Treasury hit by hundreds of hacking attacks

...email security for the UK government, declined to comment on the G20 email attack. Get the latest technology news and analysis, blogs and reviews delivered... Read more

16 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Disgruntled employee takes down ex-firm's Web site with spam attack

A teenager sacked by an insurance company responded with five million emails Read more

13 July, 2004 by Will Sturgeon

Teenager cleared of email attack charge

A judge has ruled that the Computer Misuse Act does not outlaw denial-of-service attacks Read more

2 November, 2005 by Tom Espiner

SpamHaus targeted by child-porn email attack

The anti-spam service has been targeted by a scam that is designed to end up with it being sent angry emails by users who'd been told they were being sent pornography Read more

2 December, 2003 by Will Sturgeon

US law firm in China piracy case hit by cyberattacks

It is unknown whether an email attack targeted at the firm's lawyers is related to the mid... Read more

14 January, 2010 by Elinor Mills

Cyber cops investigate Manchester police DoS attack

High-tech crime unit called in over email attack on police chief... Computer crime experts at the National Hi-Tech... Read more

12 July, 2005 by Andy McCue

Blogger targeted in Twitter, Facebook DoS

...the message said in Russian. The site also apologised for a spam email attack in which the sender was spoofed and made to look like... Read more

7 August, 2009 by Elinor Mills

Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack

...the police chief and his family lived. GMP's systems withstood the email attack and the force immediately launched an investigation. But after struggling to... Read more

12 July, 2005 by Andy McCue

Microsoft's latest patches: What you need to know

Redmond recently released some 'critical' patches - we take a closer look at what they are and how critical they are Read more

14 January, 2005 by John McCormick

Inbox menace - Bugbear

We can blame Microsoft for poor security -- and it often deserves criticism. But IT professionals must take a large share of the blame, this time Read more

10 October, 2002 by John McCormick

Seven simple ways to stop security scares

...with some people, and after five months in the wild the Klez email attack is still hale and healthy. Following the rules below will keep... Read more

26 September, 2002 by Rupert Goodwins
Email Security Success

Email Security Success

...threat, the intention is frequently financially. Discover the four main types of email attack and learn how you can secure your email infrastructure Read more

10 November, 2008
Toward a Sustainable Email Marketing Infrastructure

Toward a Sustainable Email Marketing Infrastructure

...also known as spam). Conventional approaches to maintaining the robustness of legitimate email attack pieces of the problem. In contrast, this paper asserts that the... Read more

22 November, 2007

Bugbear worm wants your credit card details

...flaw have been warned they may be vulnerable to the worm's email attack. According to Allan Bell, a Network Associates marketing director, this new... Read more

1 October, 2002 by CNET Networks

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