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Online Fraud Burgeoning 
FSA is warning on staggering growth of online fraud, incidents up 80-fold in past year, amounts stolen still fairly small, but doubling every year 14.12.06 Cybercrime, Financial Services, Identity Theft, Internet Regulation, Phishing
Longevity of Computer Misuse Act At 16, legislation is almost as old as an internet entrepreneur, low rate of convictions is not due to the weakness of the act but lack of investigations 21.11.06 Times, Cybercrime, Information Technology, Phishing
UK Firm Threatened by US Court Legal technicality led Judge Charles Kocoras in Illinois to accept claimd of damages from 'bulk emailer' e360Insight against UK firm Spamhaus, now e360Insight is seeking enforcement by requiring ICANN to withdraw domain name www.spamhaus.org 19.10.06 Guardian, Internet Regulation
Spam King Microsoft has settled for $7m in case against 'Spam King' Scott Richter originated with Elliot Spitzer 10.08.05 Reuters, Cybercrime Links, Data Protection Links, E-Commerce Links, Microsoft Links
Spam Suspicion that spammers submitted fraudulent papers to DTI during 2003 consultation on anti-spam law, may have helped secure light-touch legislation 03.06.05 Silicon.com
Online Fraud 5% of internet users fall for online fraud, half respond to 'phishing' emails which use fake branding to lure personal and financial details 04.05.05 BBC, Cybercrime Links, Phishing Links
Internet Insecurity 30k PCs a day - recent peak was 75k - are being drawn into invisible 'bot networks' used to relay spam, viruses, launch attacks and steal private information 27.09.04 BBC, E-Commerce Links
Crime Online Fraud in UK using indentity theft rose 44% to £30m in 2003, expected to continue to rise Ananova US to announce tomorrow series of major cases targeted at spam 25.08.04 NY Times, Cybercrime Links, Fraud Links
Spam Patent USTPO has granted Postini patent on spam blocking methods that could give company ownership of range of email security processes, unlikely to stand legal challenge 30.03.04 cOMPUTER WEEKLY, Patents
E-Comm 98% of websites ignore rules on cookies that came into force yesterday, visitors are supposed to be given 'clear and comprehensive' information, rules made by people who don't understand the internet 12.12.03 VNUNet, E-Commerce Links
