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Spammers were nearly seven times more likely to slap Obama's name in the subject line of their spam campaigns than McCain's during September, according to Secure Computing Corp.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed two HIPAA-like bills that set new security requirements, breach-disclosure rules and fines for health care organizations operating in that state.

A federal judge has ordered spammers Henry Perez and his wife Suzanne Bartok to pay a small Iowa ISP $236 million in damages for spam they sent in 2003.