US arrests 'spam king'

Robert Soloway, 27, was arrested in Seattle, Washington, after being indicted on charges of mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering, reports The BBC. He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

Prosecutors say he became one of the world's biggest spammers, using computers secretly infected with orders to send out millions of his e-mails.

They allege Soloway was responsible for tens-of-millions of unsoli cited e-mails promoting his own company between November 2003 and May 2007.

Microsoft will offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on the Internet as the company battles Google for advertising dollars from Web-based services, says News.com.

The company has received permission from dozens of publishers, including Cambridge University Press, McGraw-Hill and Simon & Schuster, a CBS unit, to use their copyrighted titles.

The changes to its Live Search Books come months after Microsoft attacked Google for what it called the Web search leader's "cavalier" approach to copyright protection in services like Google Book Search.

Mac OS X is running with an outdated and vulnerable version of the open source file and print program Samba, according to Symantec's DeepSight Threat Analyst Team, reports eWeek.

The vulnerabilities, first published on 14 May, involve multiple heap-based buffer overflow weaknesses in Samba's NDR RPC (remote procedure call) request.

Samba has been out since 1992 and runs on an array of systems, as is evidenced by the list of vulnerable platforms given in the 14 May alert. The vulnerability affects Samba 3 versions prior to 3.0.25.