Spammers' prime motivation for engaging in spam campaigns is financial, according to a report by Vircom, a Montreal-based email security provider. The report offers a portrait of a spammer who said he ...

It's been 12 months since spam really burst into the public consciousness. Before then it had certainly been a well-publicized problem, but often only with the more tech-savvy while the wider public ...

I tried everything to stop robocallers, from manual blocking to carrier apps. This is the exact combination of settings and tools that actually worked.

If you're a frequent WhatsApp user, you have probably noticed that the volume of spam messages has been on the rise. Like the epidemic of traditional spam phone calls and emails that started to plague ...

Blue Security’s plan to fight spam with spam has gotten me thinking. Blue Security is a startup security firm that’s taking the fight against spam to the spammers by enlisting end-users to create a Do ...

Though the FCC has tried to crack down on spam calls and texts for years, and federal and state lawmakers have passed legislation to address the problem, spam calls persist for many people. I ...

Spammers are nothing if not clever. Realizing that the increased sensitivity threshold of filters was thwarting their attempts, they turned to a different, more elusive, spamming method: image spam.

The fight against spam is being lost. At the current rate of increase, says Steve Linford of Spamhaus, 95 percent of all email will be spam by this time next year. That level of parasitic load is an ...

We tried 13 types of spam — here’s how they stack up. Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who has been covering food, beverage, and culture for over seven years. She is currently an ...

What happened, according to court records and other documents: If you received porn spam a few years ago, there’s a reasonable chance Jeffrey Kilbride, a California resident, and James Schaffer, an ...