It is not like all the US-based spammers are out of business, but Microsoft is diversifying its spam litigation by bringing lawsuit against a German spammer. Because the German laws do not have the equivalent of the CAN-SPAM, the lawsuit is brought under the German competition laws.

The man has allegedly been running spam-for-sale sites and a business
renting servers, labeled "bulk mailers," to spam companies. For just
$625 per month, a customer could buy enough server space to send 74
million e-mails a month, Microsoft said.

[Via CNET News.com -]

Aren’t browsers supposed to be getting more secure? ZDNet Australia reports that browser attacks have increased dramatically over the past year.

On Tuesday the Computing Technology Industry Association, or CompTIA,
released its third annual report on IT security and the work force. The
survey of nearly 500 organisations found that 56.6 percent had been the
victim of a browser-based attack, up from 36.8 percent a year ago and
25 percent two years ago, CompTIA said.

Viruses and trojans remain the #1 threat, although the number of attacks has remained constant.

[Via ZDNet.com.au, Australia -]