LOS ANGELES - Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users' accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages. The company said on its blog that in addition to the damage award, the San Jose, Calif., court referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's office for prosecution for criminal contempt of court — meaning he could face jail time.
Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s.
In May 2008, the online hangout MySpace won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members when a federal judge in Los Angeles ruled against Wallace and his partner, Walter Rines, in another case brought under the federal anti-spam law known as CAN-SPAM. In 2006, Wallace was fined $4 million after the Federal Trade Commission accused him of running an operation that infected computers with software that caused flurries of pop-up ads, known as "spyware."
"While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent against these criminals," said Sam O'Rourke, associate general counsel for Facebook, in a blog posting Thursday. "This is another important victory in our fight against spam."
There was no phone number listed for Wallace in Las Vegas, where he is believed to be living, according to the ruling.
The company said the judgment marks the second-largest anti-spam award ever. In November 2008, Facebook won an $873 million judgment against Adam Guerbuez and his business, Atlantis Blue Capital, who bombarded users with sexually explicit spam messages.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Is The Government Doing Enough?
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Does this mean the U.S. Government is finally getting serious about cybersecurity?? Truthfully, it's our SHARED responsibility of good cyber-hygiene among ALL computer users, not just industry and government.
To give just a hint of the depth of this challenge, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is presently making its way through Congress. The bill’s co-sponsor, Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), has stated:
“America’s vulnerability to massive cybercrime, global cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks has emerged as one of the most urgent national security problems facing our country today.”
Folks, the explosion of cybercrime and identity theft has reached a 5-year high, increasing annually at a rate of 22%!! It's escalating rapidly in our difficult economic times. In 2008 alone, 9.9 MILLION Americans were victims of identity theft. In fact, the Wall Street Journal states: "Information breaches to U.S. companies in 2008 reached a per-incident cost of $6.65 MILLION."
Take note of these scary, but very real statistics:
** More than 1 person in 10 knew the person who stole their identity.
** Identity thieves are working dramatically faster to exploit their victims.
** Information stolen and stored for a year or more was up 50%.
** Women are 26% more likely to be victims of identity theft than are men.
** Latinos are 47% more apt to become victims of identity theft.
** Minors are increasingly targets. The thieves know that it can take years before a child's ID
theft is discovered.
** Households with higher incomes -- $75,000 or more -- are now at a higher risk.
So…what do these identity theft stats have to do with cybersecurity? Everything. The common denominator here is easy access to individual and business computers in which hackers [read: cyber criminals] are able to penetrate and hijack computers, jeopardizing proprietary and corrupting computers.
The need to turn the Tsunami tide is CRITICALLY urgent, as both our personal AND our national security hinges on ALL computers (home AND businesses) being secured against the ravages and major headaches of cybercrime....all producing hassles, headaches, and serious problems for the end user, along with being an unsuspecting participant in the raging, stealth war of cybercrime and identity fraud. Yes, folks, we’re in an escalating cyber war….it’s already begun!
I am including in this post a link (below) to a blog article from TechRepublic.com called “Cybersecurity: Is the U.S. Government doing enough?”. This explains exactly WHY cybersecurity is EVERYONE'S responsibility. Especially in these challenging days, what is available as "security" software (like Norton, McAfee, TrendMicro, Kaspersky, Panda, etc.) is merely "entry level" and just isn't capable of meeting -- much less staying on top of -- the increasing challenges of sophisticated cybercriminals and other hackers. (If the off-the-shelf, entry-level software did the job, why would the problems be escalating??)
That's exactly why, in my business as a PC Security and Care and Identity Protection Specialist, access to unlimited service and corporate-grade security is provided to computer owners, enabling them to keep cyber criminals from hijacking personal and business PC’s and stealing proprietary data and committing crimes like identity theft and credit fraud. Truthfully, we’re a hacker’s worst nightmare!
Both individuals and small businesses can now finally keep their PC’s and identities secure and truly free from hassles, headaches, and worry….allowing them to literally and finally gain true peace of mind!
Cybersecurity…it’s our shared responsibility!
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Does this mean the U.S. Government is finally getting serious about cybersecurity?? Truthfully, it's our SHARED responsibility of good cyber-hygiene among ALL computer users, not just industry and government.
To give just a hint of the depth of this challenge, the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 is presently making its way through Congress. The bill’s co-sponsor, Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), has stated:
“America’s vulnerability to massive cybercrime, global cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks has emerged as one of the most urgent national security problems facing our country today.”
Folks, the explosion of cybercrime and identity theft has reached a 5-year high, increasing annually at a rate of 22%!! It's escalating rapidly in our difficult economic times. In 2008 alone, 9.9 MILLION Americans were victims of identity theft. In fact, the Wall Street Journal states: "Information breaches to U.S. companies in 2008 reached a per-incident cost of $6.65 MILLION."
Take note of these scary, but very real statistics:
** More than 1 person in 10 knew the person who stole their identity.
** Identity thieves are working dramatically faster to exploit their victims.
** Information stolen and stored for a year or more was up 50%.
** Women are 26% more likely to be victims of identity theft than are men.
** Latinos are 47% more apt to become victims of identity theft.
** Minors are increasingly targets. The thieves know that it can take years before a child's ID
theft is discovered.
** Households with higher incomes -- $75,000 or more -- are now at a higher risk.
So…what do these identity theft stats have to do with cybersecurity? Everything. The common denominator here is easy access to individual and business computers in which hackers [read: cyber criminals] are able to penetrate and hijack computers, jeopardizing proprietary and corrupting computers.
The need to turn the Tsunami tide is CRITICALLY urgent, as both our personal AND our national security hinges on ALL computers (home AND businesses) being secured against the ravages and major headaches of cybercrime....all producing hassles, headaches, and serious problems for the end user, along with being an unsuspecting participant in the raging, stealth war of cybercrime and identity fraud. Yes, folks, we’re in an escalating cyber war….it’s already begun!
I am including in this post a link (below) to a blog article from TechRepublic.com called “Cybersecurity: Is the U.S. Government doing enough?”. This explains exactly WHY cybersecurity is EVERYONE'S responsibility. Especially in these challenging days, what is available as "security" software (like Norton, McAfee, TrendMicro, Kaspersky, Panda, etc.) is merely "entry level" and just isn't capable of meeting -- much less staying on top of -- the increasing challenges of sophisticated cybercriminals and other hackers. (If the off-the-shelf, entry-level software did the job, why would the problems be escalating??)
That's exactly why, in my business as a PC Security and Care and Identity Protection Specialist, access to unlimited service and corporate-grade security is provided to computer owners, enabling them to keep cyber criminals from hijacking personal and business PC’s and stealing proprietary data and committing crimes like identity theft and credit fraud. Truthfully, we’re a hacker’s worst nightmare!
Both individuals and small businesses can now finally keep their PC’s and identities secure and truly free from hassles, headaches, and worry….allowing them to literally and finally gain true peace of mind!
Cybersecurity…it’s our shared responsibility!
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=2532&tag=nl.e036#comments
http://www.kfidentity.com/
http://perfecttrafficstorm.com/aff/4163
http://www.DesktopLightning.com/fulghamkathleen
http://www.leadsleap.com/?referid=fulghamkathleen
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