As the worldwide financial crisis deepens, typical of any such event, there are those who are going to try to take advantage of it. You'll recall phishing upticks that occurred after events such as Katrina or the Asian tsunami in 2004, for example.

Lyris launches email marketing tool ListManager 10

Today's launch of Lyris ListManager 10 sees online marketing specialist Lyris UK (www.lyris.co.uk) continue to play a key role in the industry's drive to deliver timely, relevant and valuable email to the inbox and reduce unwanted messages. The new version of the company's flagship email marketing tool combines sophisticated technology with better availability of information to address critical deliverability issues.

A scandal which has seen half China's mobile phone users spammed with unwanted text messages has drawn the ire of the government, which has vowed to fight against the spam texters and promises to expose more of them in the future.

Robert Soloway, from Seattle Washington, also known as the "King of Spam", pleads guilty to charges of fraud and tax evasion and faces up to 26 years in prison and a $625,000 fine.

The first two men charged under the new anti-spam act for sending out millions of pornographic emails were sentenced to five years in federal prison.

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) today announced the achievement of a significant milestone in consumer protection: McAfee® SiteAdvisor™, the world's leading safe search and surf technology, has been downloaded more than 75 million times by Internet users.

Data collected by SonicWALL, Inc. from its Smart Network database of over 1.3 million e-mail users shows ongoing growth in the volume of spam, virus and phishing attacks, increased use of PDF spam and the emergence of a new wave of Excel and ZIP spam. The results were based on aggregated results from the SonicWALL Smart Network from April to July, 2007.

Judge gave a retrial time to the teacher who was claimed for showing porn to her pupils. A team of internet specialist supported her, declaring she was innocent, that it was a result of spam pop-ups.

Robert Alan Soloway, 27 year old, the world's biggest e-mail spammer is arrested. He was arrested for mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering.

VASCO Investigated Internet Threats of 400 Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SME) With 5 to 250 Internet Users