IIA Security Portal

The resources here provides links, documents and details of research being undertaken to assist you protect your system from Spam.

LINKS

• Coalition Against Unsolicited Bulk Email, Australia: Formed to represent the views of those in Australia who are opposed to the advertising practices which are collectively known as email spam.
• Guide for Internet Users, Spam Section, Internet Industry Association: The IIA has prepared this guide to assist Australian Internet users

  Understand Australia's co-regulatory framework for online content, pursuant to the requirements of legislation introduced by the Australian parliament in 1999.

• How to spot and stop spam: BBC online: Unsolicited e-mails now infuriatingly clutter many inboxes, just as paper junk mail buried many a front door mat. But is smart technology set to save us from spam?
• Internet Industry Association National Spam Initiative: As part of its mission, the IIA is committed to assisting intenet users better manage the problem of 'spam' (or unsolicited commercial email)
• Protecting your privacy on the Internet: Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner. This article is for those who are relatively new to the Internet. The Internet is a network which has much to offer but you can give away a lot of information about yourself if you are not careful.
• SPAM: Flinders University. Background information on unsolicited email.

PUBLICATIONS

• A Bill for an Act about spam, 2003
• Regulating Spam: Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam (pdf doc)
• Security Guide, Spam: Caslon Analytics. This page deals with electronic junk mail (spam), also known as unsolicited commercial email (UCE).
• Spam (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2003
• Spam Log: Australian Skeptics data on received Spam.
• Spam riles internet users: ZDNet Australia. Study shows rising angst over junk e-mail has the majority of the Internet population in favor of outlawing it.