Under new regulations for telecom firms, the Federal Communications Commission is taking action against spammy text messages in response to an increase in consumer complaints in recent years related to unsolicited robotexts.

A new proposal by India's telecom regulator aims to make accurate caller ID mandatory, but critics say it may be fundamentally flawed.

In this article, we’ll talk about how you can protect yourself and your email account by following email security best practices.

They are not going away anytime soon, as scammers are getting more clever and devious in their phishing attempts.

Because calendar spam is now a thing

Tired of getting coupons, catalogs, and "pre-approved" credit card offers in your mailbox? Tara Calishain shows you how visiting a few websites can help put a stop to that pesky paper mail.

YOU’VE SEEN THE ads in your email or online: Celebrities supposedly hawking miracle weight loss cures or galaxy brain supplements. They’re at this point endemic to the web, as deeply ingrained as hashtags and puppies. But even though plenty of people fall for them, no one ever really does anything about it. Of all the security threats online, spam ranks pretty low on the priority list.

A Tennessee woman has been awarded nearly half a million dollars after a furniture company illegally hounded her with hundreds of robocalls, sometimes more than 10 times per day, even after she asked them to no longer contact her, per court records. Furniture chain Conn’s began contacting Veronica Davis in September of 2015, according to a court filing, about a month after she purchased furniture from its Memphis store that she was to pay off in monthly installments.

Following a BuzzFeed News investigation, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology cofounder James Scott [spamming Snapzu as /u/Cyberdotnet et al.] has “voluntarily decided to step away” and a law firm will review claims about him. By Craig Silverman.

It seemed like we had defeated electronic junk mail. Then the spammers rose from the dead.

Experts say a "mind-boggling" amount of user data has been gathered by a hacking operation.

Know what everyone hates? Robocalls. The Federal Communications Commission knows this which is why it’s creating tools that will hopefully help you block both robocallers and telemarketers for good.  FROM EARLIER: Apple’s latest invention could ensure your iPhone display never cracks again The FCC announced this week that it will “release robocall and telemarketing consumer complaint data weekly to help developers build and improve...

Every day copyright holders report millions of infringing links to Google. Nearly all of these requests are automated and involve little oversight. This leads to the occasional mistake but some bogus takedown notices are sent on purpose. It appears that spammers have discovered Google’s takedown forms and found a way to submit their own fake notices.

Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words. “I’m going to get in so much trouble,” he says. The question, you see, touches on an eternally controversial topic: the future of computer programming languages. Brandy is a software engineer at Facebook, and alongside a team of other Facebookers, he spent the last two years rebuilding the system that removes spam—malicious, offensive...

He’s been spamming since the fax machine days. So-called “Spam King” Sanford Wallace has admitted to using around a half-million Facebook accounts to send more than 27 million unsolicited messages on the social network, Bloomberg reports. Wallace pled guilty to charges of fraud and criminal contempt; he faces up to three years in prison and a $250,000 fine for his activities.

Every year, the Spam Jam shuts down Waikiki’s famous Kalakaua Avenue, filling it with chefs from around 20 Honolulu restaurants who vie to make the most inspirational, surprisingly delicious recipe using the caramel-colored, versatile meat.

Spam. It’s the Internet’s most resilient parasite. Millions of messages pollute the Web’s pipes every day. Grow a monster penis. Lose 20 pounds. Help out an African prince. You know the drill. A lot of it is garbled junk, sentences that read like a computer ingested the Oxford English Dictionary and vomited it back out. The results are bizarre and often unintentionally hilarious, a favorite subject of forwarded emails or, in the age of Twitter, cult celebrity.

Twitter has introduced a quality filter designed to remove threats and abuse from a user's timeline in its latest effort to tackle online harassment.

Marcia Bergeron's body was discovered by a neighbor the day after Christmas 2006. The coroner didn’t have to look far for a cause of death: More than a hundred generic pills were found in her home, including a sedative, an anti-anxiety drug and acetaminophen. Bergeron, a 57-year-old resident of Quadra Island in British Columbia, Canada, started...

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