Spam

Apple iPhones Hit With Calendar Spam Touting Cheap Designer Goods

Unwanted event invitations continue to appear in iPhones calendars, but Apple remains silent on the matter

8 years ago

Ofcom Wants To Block Nuisance Mobile Calls With A Text

New registration service will look to protect customers from being bombarded with pesky voice calls

9 years ago

Rio 2016: Criminals Go For Gold With Olympic Ticket Scams

Kaspersky Lab report warns against Olympic tickets that seem too good to be true

9 years ago

Spam Emails Getting Nastier, Kaspersky Lab Warns

Spam levels are falling, but Kaspersky Lab says that malicious emails are increasingly becoming malicious and criminalised

9 years ago

Brexit Campaigners Fined For Sending 500,000 Spam EU Referendum Texts

Campaign group that backs European exit fined for spam messages, but it tells TechweekEurope ICO has got it wrong

9 years ago

Almost All Apps Have Flaws, Trustwave Study Finds

2016 Trustwave Global Security Report reveals shocking cybercrime trends

9 years ago

Mumblehard Linux Spamming Botnet Finally Taken Offline

Thousands of servers running Linux and BSD had been affected by one of world's most damaging botnets

9 years ago

More Than Half Of World’s Emails Are Spam And Malware

Mobile devices are now a particular focus for criminals' spam and malware attacks

9 years ago

Spam Targets Lonely Hearts And Tourists, Warns Kaspersky

Lonely tonight? Or fancy jetting off somewhere for free? Then beware of being duped by spam says Kaspersky

9 years ago

Scammers Quick To React To Ashley Madison Hack

Ashley Madison data breach triggers upsurge in spam email, as victims become scammers target

9 years ago

Facebook ‘Spam King’ Wallace Pleads Guilty To Criminal Charges

Wallace's junk marketing career predates the Internet, but he has never been convicted of criminal charges until now

9 years ago

Businesses Face Malicious Attachment Threat As Spam Declines

Spam email volumes are down, but attacks that rely on malicious document attachments are on the rise

9 years ago

Email Spam Levels Fall To 12-Year Low

For the first time since September 2003, less than half of all emails sent are spam, Symantec report reveals

9 years ago

Ransomware, Phishing And Spam Attacks Hit New Highs In Q1 2015

Six trillion spam messages sent worldwide in the first three months of 2015, McAfee Labs report finds

10 years ago

15,000 Spam Emails Hit Android Devices With FBI Porn Warning

Ukranian ransomware demands up to $1,500 to unlock victims' devices

10 years ago

Revealed – The Spammiest Nations On Earth

Sophos report reveals US still leads the way in terms of spam volume worldwide

10 years ago

Spam Campaign Exploits Router Security Flaws, Proofpoint Warns

Cybercriminals using phishing techniques to exploit router vulnerabilities, including weak passwords

10 years ago

Twitter Confirms CFO Account Hack

The Twitter account belonging to the CFO of the microblogging website falls victim to hack

10 years ago

Facebook Users Receive Free Malware Scanning Tool

Facebook and ESET team up to reduce threat of malware on the social network

10 years ago

Microsoft “Blocks 10 Million Spam Messages A Minute”

Microsoft's cloud-based Exchange Online Protection service is the company's weapon in an escalating arms race with spammers

10 years ago

UCL Students Receive Thousands Of Spam Emails In ‘Bellogate’

Student added to mailing lists of PornHub and UKIP as email addresses are compromises in Bellogate

10 years ago

Sophos: One Infected Machine Sends Up To 30 GB Of Spam A Week

A compromised computer could hit 5.5 million email addresses with spam every week without its owner ever noticing

10 years ago

EE Apologises For Bombarding Orange Users With Texts

EE says a technical issue is causing Orange customers to receive duplicate texts about Magic Numbers

10 years ago

ICO Hunts Down Another Spam Texter

The watchdog has raided a ‘SIM farm’ in the midlands and issued a sizeable fine

11 years ago

Virgin Media Fixes Email Issue After Users Complain Of Excessive Spam

Virgin Media customers with a 'virgin.net' address complain of receiving hundreds of messages after a service email lets anyone reply…

11 years ago

UK Operators And ICO Team Up With GSMA To Fight Nuisance Texts

EE, O2, Three, Vodafone and the ICO sign up for GSMA spam reporting service to better block nuisance texts and…

11 years ago

Is Your Fridge Spreading Listeria On The Internet Of Things?

Fridges are already unhealthy places, but thanks to the Internet of Things, they are a source of online infections, says…

11 years ago

Google Slated For Opening Gmail Inboxes To Google+ Spam

Privacy row hits Google as Google+ users get the power to send email to strangers on Gmail

11 years ago

Facebook Suing Alleged Bieber Sex Spammer

Social network files complaint about alleged mass spam campaign

11 years ago

SoundCloud Gives Away Its Anti-Spam Tool, Sketchy

‘Sketchy’ was developed to stop... sketchy behaviour

11 years ago