Spam Stories

The Unsettling Scourge of Obituary Spam 39
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 58
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' 67
Judge Tears Apart Republican Lawsuit Alleging Bias In Gmail Spam Filter 184
As BotDefense Leaves 'Antagonistic' Reddit, Mods Fear Spam Overload 68
Google To Stop Exempting Campaign Email From Automated Spam Detection 94
FCC's Robocaller Crackdown Brings Stark Warning for Voice Providers 47
Google Voice Will Now Warn You About Potential Spam Calls 28
Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General 37
RNC Sues Google Over Spam Email Filters 213
FCC Threatens To Block Calls From Carriers For Letting Robocalls Run Rampant 78
Gmail Users 'Hard Pass' On Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Spam Filters 62
FCC Cracks Down On Spam 'Auto Warranty' Robocalls 111
Twitter Says It Removes Over 1 Million Spam Accounts Each Day 35
Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal 'Temporarily On Hold Over Spam' 138
FaceTime Users Bombarded With Group Call Spam 49
Americans Are Drowning In Spam 134
More Than 80% of NFTs Created For Free On OpenSea Are Fraud Or Spam, Company Says 38
Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers 13
Hackers Are Spamming Businesses' Receipt Printers With 'Antiwork' Manifestos 96
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts 45
How Spam Flooded the Official Python Software Package Repository PyPI 41
Spam Calls Grew 18% This Year Despite the Global Pandemic 89
Body Found In Canada Identified As Neo-Nazi Spam King 90
A Massive Spam Attack Is Ruining Public 'Among Us' Games 60
'Unusually Large Number' of Breached SendGrid Accounts Are Sending Spams and Scams 13
Elon Musk Shows Neuralink Brain Link Working In a Pig 87
Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters 103
FCC: Phone Carriers That Profit From Robocalls Could Have All Calls Blocked 55
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Letting Scammers Register Lookalike Domains 87
Google Chrome To Hide Notification Spam Starting February 2020 50
Google Adds Spam Detection and Verified Business SMS To Messages 14
People Worldwide Have Received More Than 26 Billion Spam Calls This Year 113
Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam 245
Released from Prison, Spammer Who Stole 17.5 Million Passwords Apologizes and Reforms 19
Verizon's Anti-Robocall Service Will be Automatically Enabled on Android Phones 33
Samsung is Spamming Galaxy Phones With Multiple Note10 Ads 72
Robocall Ban Should Target Texts and Foreign Calls, FCC Chief Says 56
FCC Announces Action and Legal Framework To Fight Robocalls 104
Phone Carrier Apps Can Help Fight Robocalls -- Sometimes, Even For Free 69
Why Robo-Calls Can't Be Stopped 338
Verizon Will Give Subscribers Free Access To Anti-Robocall Tools 40
Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee 46
Verizon Charges New 'Spam' Fee For Texts Sent From Teachers To Students 145
T-Mobile Begins Verifying Calls To Protect Against Spam 106
Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, But Google Says a Fix is Coming 58
OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently 77
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info 171
Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report 79
Forty Years of Spam Email 95
Google's Phone App Is Getting the Power To Send Spam Calls Straight To Voicemail 85
Facebook Is Spamming Users Via Their 2FA Phone Numbers 119
Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts 178
Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison 69
Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages 84
Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares 85
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked 177
Spam Is Back 154
Phone Companies Get New Tools To Block Spam Calls 129
Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf 70
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time 57
Massive New Spambot Ensnares 711,000,000 Email Addresses 31
Fake Messages Rigged With Malware Are Spreading Via Facebook Messenger 44
Nuisance Call Firm Keurboom Hit With Record Fine 81
39 Years Ago The World's First Spam Was Sent 60
Security Researcher and Alleged Spam Operator To Square Off In Court In Ugly Lawsuit 56
Airline Fined For Sending 3.3 Million Unwanted Emails 18
T-Mobile Kicks Off Industry Robocall War With Network-Level Blocking and ID Tools 76
Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? 124
Huge Database Leak Reveals 1.37 Billion Email Addresses and Exposes Illegal Spam Operation 141
Exploit that Caused iPhones To Repeatedly Dial 911 Reveals Grave Cybersecurity Threat, Say Experts 71
Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked 445
Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? 101
World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature 26
Spammer Faces Decades In Prison For Sending More Than 1 Million Spam Emails 146
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers 97
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts 91
AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls 66
Apple Introduces 'Report Junk' Option To Deal With iCloud Calendar Spam Invites 22
It's Not Just You, iCloud Calendar Spam is On the Rise 28
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam 120
Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010 47
Microsoft Deprecating 'Obsolete' SmartScreen Spam Filters In Outlook and Exchange 29
Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You 128
Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off 268
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose 48
'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam 56
WordPress Sites Under Attack From New Zero-Day In WP Mobile Detector Plugin 50
Microsoft Will Stop Spamming Android Users With Office Ads In The Notification Tray 110
AT&T Looks To Sell Cyanogen-Powered ZTE Phone To Snub Google 74
Docs With Malicious Macros Deliver Fileless Malware 39
BT Announces Free Service To Screen Nuisance Callers 69
A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane 253
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? 244
German Court: "Sharing" Your Amazon Purchases Is Spamming 195
DOJ and 4 States Want $24 Billion In Fines From Dish Network For Telemarketing 117
E-Mail Spam Goes Artisanal 68
Verizon Accused of Helping Spammers By Routing Millions of Stolen IP Addresses 120
Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill 216
Intel Pulling the Plug On McAfee/MX Logic Anti-Spam 42
The Hostile Email Landscape 217
Ask Slashdot: Should I Publish My Collection of Email Spamming IP Addresses? 106
Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds 136
A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email 114
Google Launches Gmail Postmaster Tools To Eliminate Spam 55
Time Warner Cable Owes $229,500 To Woman It Would Not Stop Calling 215
Avira Wins Case Upholding Its Right To Block Adware 64
Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? 269
86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US 193
Attackers Use Email Spam To Infect Point-of-Sale Terminals 85
Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think 227
Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 229
FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software 79
CRTC Issues $1.1 Million Penalty To Compu-Finder For Spamming Canadians 54
How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year 145
Fujitsu Psychology Tool Profiles Users At Risk of Cyberattacks 30
FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number 217
To Avoid Detection, Terrorists Made Messages Seem Like Spam 110
Google Finally Quashes Month-Old Malvertising Campaign 56
AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads 285
Book Review: Spam Nation 82
Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal 137
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? 159
Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? 405
Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? 139
Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? 265
TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers 251
Couchsurfing Hacked, Sends Airbnb Prank Spam 44
Google Expands Safe Browsing To Block Unwanted Downloads 106
Password Gropers Hit Peak Stupid, Take the Spamtrap Bait 100
Gmail Now Rejects Emails With Misleading Combinations of Unicode Characters 79
Memo to Users: SpamCop Winding Down Webmail Service 44
Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails 145
Researchers Outline Spammers' Business Ecosystem 14
AOL Finally Admits They Were Hacked 54
Cuba: US Using New Weapon Against Us -- Spam 139
Gmail's 'Unsubscribe' Tool Comes Out of the Weeds 129
LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers' 70
The Spamming Refrigerator 90
Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison 233
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
Whatever Happened To Sanford "Spamford" Wallace? 45
Spamhaus Calls for Fining Operators of Insecure Servers 170
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Stop a Debt Collection Scam From Targeting You? 497
Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans 81
To Beat Spam Filters, Look Like A Spammer? 143
The NSA Is Collecting Lots of Spam 159
NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself 150
Brooklyn Yogurt Shop Sting Snares Fake Reviewers For NY Attorney General 168
Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? 190
How One Man Turns Annoying Cold Calls Into Cash 227
Brazilian Journals' Self-Citation Cartel Smashed 68
Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World 176
Researchers Buy Twitter Bots To Fight Twitter Spam 45
How Not To Be a SEO Spammer 65
Suspect Arrested In Spamhaus DDoS Attack 95
Google Reinstates Federated Jabber/XMPP Instant Messaging 32
LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers 164
Maintaining a Publicly Available Blacklist - Mechanisms and Principles 89
Popular Wordpress Plug-in Caught Spamming Is Put On Probation 76
FTC Awards $50k In Prizes To Cut Off Exasperating Robocalls 216
Is Eccentric Sven Olaf Kamphius To Blame For Spamhaus DDoS? 133
Did the Spamhaus DDoS Really Slow Down Global Internet Access? 70
Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second 450
Google Begins Blocking Third-Party Jabber Invites 92
The Internet's Bad Neighborhoods 77
'This Is Your Second and Final Notice' Robocallers Revealed 235
Widespread Compromise Of Yahoo-Backed Email In New Zealand 47
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Handle SPF For Spam Filtering? 187
Sony Rootkit Redux: Canadian Business Groups Lobby For Right To Install Spyware 240
FTC Gets 744 New Ideas On How To Hang Up On Robocallers 281
Proposed Canadian Anti-Spam Rules Restrict Secret ISP Monitoring 24
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
Ask Slashdot: What To Tell Non-Tech Savvy Family About Malware? 340
The SEO Spammers Behind Online Infographics 55
Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist 345
Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal 338
Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts 418
FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" 289
Spammers Using Shortened .gov URLs 75
FTC Offers $50,000 For Best Way To Stop Robocalls 614
Zero Errors? Spamhaus Flubs Causing Domain Deletions 170
Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work 128
A Month After Grum Botnet Takedown, Spam Back To Previous Levels 47
Russia's Former KGB Invests In Political Propaganda Spambots 164
Ask Slashdot: Using a Sandbox To Deal With Spambots? 167
Inside a Ransomware Money Machine 158
Google Clamps Down On Spam, Intrusive Ads In Apps 122
Dropbox Confirms Email Addresses Were Pilfered 89
Australians Receive SMS Death Threats 192
Fake Password Reset E-mail Hits 7,500 Black Hat Registrants 67
Poison Attacks Against Machine Learning 82
New Round of Server Take-Downs Fells Grum Botnet 14
Facebook "Like" System Devalued By Fake Users 99
How Exploit Kits Have Changed Spammers' M.O. 37
Microsoft Engineer Discovers Android Spam Botnet, Google Denies Claim 152
First iOS Malware Discovered In Apple's App Store 171
Facebook Spammers Make $20M, Get $100K Fine 74
Facebook Says It's Filtering Comments For Spam, Not Censoring Them 155
Cash For Tweets and Facebook Posts? Aussie Startup Pays You to Astroturf 156
Banned From Kickstarter For Being Cyberstalked 382
Twitter Files Suit Against Spam Software Authors 56
Good News: A Sustained Drop In Spam Levels 75
Microsoft Blocking Pirate Bay Links In Messenger 198
Nigerian Scam Artists Taken For $33,000 229
How Mailinator Compresses Its Email Stream By 90% 75
Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? 182
The Gang Behind the World's Largest Spam Botnet 58
Facebook, Washington State Sue Firm Over Clickjacking 71
Leaked Online Chats Expose Author of Largest Spam Botnet 78
New York Times Hacked? 103
Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection 81
IBM's Five Predictions For the Next Five Years 219
Repurposing Anti-Spam Tools For Detecting Mutations In HIV 67
Internet Water Army On the March 137
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Spammers You Know? 333
Hacked MIT Server Used To Stage Attacks 75
Ask Slashdot: Spoof an Email Bounce With Windows? 244
Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam 134
Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System 63
Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus 218
Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? 301
The State of Hacked Accounts 69
When Does Signing Up Become 'Opting In?' 151
Court Renders $3 Judgment Against Spamhaus 156
Spammers Bribe Russian Officials 83
Malicious Spam Spikes To 'Epic' Level 130
Spam King Wallace Indicted For Facebook Spam 93
Cornell Software Fingers Fake Online Reviews 122
Spammers Prefer Compromised Accounts To Botnets 53
Zeroing In On the Internet's 'Evil Cities' 90
Google Blocks co.cc From Search Results 127
7 Days In Email Hell 213
Spamming Becoming Financially Infeasible 212
Graphing Internet Interaction To Spot Spammers 53
Judges Berate Spammer For 'Incompetent' Litigation 143
Spammers Discover Kindle Self-Publishing 122
Dozens of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot 81
Explaining The Business of Spam 74
Spammers Establish Fake URL-Shortening Services 99
A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors 173
Epsilon Data Breach Bigger Than Just Kroger Customers' Data 115
Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed 199
Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action 302
Prepare For Massive Wave of Earthquake Scams 158
A Spamming Attorney Gets Sentenced To 40 Months 131
Russian Payment Processor Runs Massive Scareware Operation 62
'Spam King' Released From Prison, Now Lives In Seattle 275
China Cleans Up Spam Problem 69

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