In a move to halt the illegal selling of contact and other personal information to spammers and telemarketers, the United Kingdom will begin jailing people/organizations that sell or otherwise misuse personal data, such as email addressses. Offenders found guilty of selling contact information to spammers or cold call marketers will face up to two years in jail.

The Distributed Denial of Service Attack launched on Tuesday against the 13 internet root servers utlized millions of zombie Botnet PCs. The attack briefly overwhelmed two of the servers, but was more or less successfully thwarted. The attack does, however, highlight the strength of the criminal distributed computing network which hackers have built over the years.