Date / Time |
Story |
Monday February 12, 2024 @10:33AM |
The Unsettling Scourge of Obituary Spam |
Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:37PM |
Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find |
Sunday October 22, 2023 @03:30PM |
20 Carriers Face Call-Blocking in the US for Submitting Fake 'Robocall Mitigation Plans' |
Friday August 25, 2023 @04:26PM |
Judge Tears Apart Republican Lawsuit Alleging Bias In Gmail Spam Filter |
Sunday July 09, 2023 @01:57PM |
As BotDefense Leaves 'Antagonistic' Reddit, Mods Fear Spam Overload |
Tuesday January 24, 2023 @09:50PM |
Google To Stop Exempting Campaign Email From Automated Spam Detection |
Tuesday January 17, 2023 @05:26PM |
RNC Loses Complaint Claiming Gmail Spam Filter Is Biased Against Republicans |
Thursday January 12, 2023 @11:52AM |
FCC's Robocaller Crackdown Brings Stark Warning for Voice Providers |
Friday December 30, 2022 @07:28AM |
Google Voice Will Now Warn You About Potential Spam Calls |
Thursday December 22, 2022 @02:40PM |
Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General |
Friday November 04, 2022 @08:21AM |
Google Spam Update |
Tuesday October 25, 2022 @08:32AM |
RNC Sues Google Over Spam Email Filters |
Monday October 24, 2022 @08:39PM |
RNC Sues Google Over Spam Email Filters |
Monday October 03, 2022 @05:03PM |
FCC Threatens To Block Calls From Carriers For Letting Robocalls Run Rampant |
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:18PM |
Gmail Users 'Hard Pass' On Plan To Let Political Emails Bypass Spam Filters |
Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:04AM |
FCC Cracks Down On Spam 'Auto Warranty' Robocalls |
Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:04PM |
Twitter Says It Removes Over 1 Million Spam Accounts Each Day |
Friday May 13, 2022 @04:45PM |
Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal 'Temporarily On Hold Over Spam' |
Wednesday April 20, 2022 @08:23AM |
FaceTime Users Bombarded With Group Call Spam |
Monday April 18, 2022 @05:28PM |
Americans Are Drowning In Spam |
Friday January 28, 2022 @06:37PM |
More Than 80% of NFTs Created For Free On OpenSea Are Fraud Or Spam, Company Says |
Wednesday December 08, 2021 @06:02PM |
Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers |
Friday December 03, 2021 @06:26PM |
Hackers Are Spamming Businesses' Receipt Printers With 'Antiwork' Manifestos |
Tuesday October 19, 2021 @07:06PM |
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts |
Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:58PM |
How Spam Flooded the Official Python Software Package Repository PyPI |
Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:08PM |
Spam Calls Grew 18% This Year Despite the Global Pandemic |
Tuesday November 10, 2020 @07:17PM |
Body Found In Canada Identified As Neo-Nazi Spam King |
Friday October 23, 2020 @08:06PM |
A Massive Spam Attack Is Ruining Public 'Among Us' Games |
Friday October 23, 2020 @12:35PM |
High Demand Amenities: What Renters Want and What Landlords Gain By Providing It |
Saturday August 29, 2020 @08:22PM |
'Unusually Large Number' of Breached SendGrid Accounts Are Sending Spams and Scams |
Friday August 28, 2020 @07:22PM |
Elon Musk Shows Neuralink Brain Link Working In a Pig |
Friday July 24, 2020 @05:54PM |
Trump Campaign Angry That Cell Carriers Blocked Company Texts To Voters |
Friday July 17, 2020 @03:41PM |
FCC: Phone Carriers That Profit From Robocalls Could Have All Calls Blocked |
Monday June 29, 2020 @04:35PM |
Apple's AI Plan: a thousand small conveniences |
Monday June 22, 2020 @04:54PM |
Microsoft Is Shutting Down Mixer and Partnering With Facebook Gaming |
Saturday May 30, 2020 @07:32AM |
Comcast Collaborates with Industry Partners on Blockgraph Software |
Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:10PM |
Amazon In Advanced Talks To Buy Self-Driving-Car Company Zoox |
Wednesday April 01, 2020 @02:24PM |
Apple acquires popular weather app Dark Sky and will shut down the Android versi |
Monday March 30, 2020 @11:21AM |
Coronavirus has led to a 775% increase in use of Microsoft Azure services |
Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:43PM |
Microsoft explains the Impact of Coronavirus on their Cloud Services Usage |
Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:14PM |
Apple releases a new COVID-19 Screening Tool |
Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:22PM |
Elon Musk just proved the case for a Mars Colony: COVID-19 a pandemic. |
Wednesday March 11, 2020 @05:21PM |
Elon Musk's Battery Farm Is An Undeniable Success |
Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:51PM |
Facebook Sues Namecheap For Letting Scammers Register Lookalike Domains |
Wednesday January 08, 2020 @02:32AM |
Google Chrome To Hide Notification Spam Starting February 2020 |
Thursday December 12, 2019 @03:20PM |
Google Adds Spam Detection and Verified Business SMS To Messages |
Thursday December 12, 2019 @09:39AM |
Microsoft is About To Start Aggressively Advertising Windows 10 To Windows 7 Stragglers |
Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:52PM |
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts |
Tuesday December 03, 2019 @10:04AM |
People Worldwide Have Received More Than 26 Billion Spam Calls This Year |
Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:37PM |
Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam |
Saturday September 14, 2019 @01:31AM |
Released from Prison, Spammer Who Stole 17.5 Million Passwords Apologizes and Reforms |
Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:51AM |
'Why the Amazon Basics Keyboard Is My Favorite Keyboard' |
Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:56PM |
Verizon's Anti-Robocall Service Will be Automatically Enabled on Android Phones |
Monday August 12, 2019 @10:01AM |
Samsung is Spamming Galaxy Phones With Multiple Note10 Ads |
Monday July 08, 2019 @03:24PM |
Robocall Ban Should Target Texts and Foreign Calls, FCC Chief Says |
Friday May 24, 2019 @03:41AM |
Senate Passes Bill Cracking Down On Robocalls |
Wednesday May 15, 2019 @10:48AM |
FCC Announces Action and Legal Framework To Fight Robocalls |
Saturday April 13, 2019 @07:03PM |
GNU GPLv3 At the Heart of the Black Hole Image |
Saturday March 30, 2019 @01:09PM |
Phone Carrier Apps Can Help Fight Robocalls -- Sometimes, Even For Free |
Sunday March 24, 2019 @09:08PM |
Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? |
Sunday March 17, 2019 @05:19PM |
Why Robo-Calls Can't Be Stopped |
Tuesday January 29, 2019 @05:17AM |
The Mystery Tracks Being 'Forced' on Spotify Users |
Friday January 18, 2019 @08:14PM |
Verizon Offers Free Robocall Blocking, Two Years After AT&T and T-Mobile |
Friday January 18, 2019 @01:54PM |
Verizon Will Give Subscribers Free Access To Anti-Robocall Tools |
Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:46PM |
Verizon Blames School Text Provider In Dispute Over 'Spam' Fee |
Monday January 14, 2019 @11:56PM |
Verizon Charges New 'Spam' Fee For Texts Sent From Teachers To Students |
Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:00PM |
T-Mobile Begins Verifying Calls To Protect Against Spam |
Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:56PM |
Google Drive Has a Serious Spam Problem, But Google Says a Fix is Coming |
Thursday January 03, 2019 @06:23PM |
OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently |
Thursday October 11, 2018 @05:40PM |
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info |
Thursday October 04, 2018 @10:18AM |
Microsoft Now Has the Best Device Lineup in the Industry |
Friday July 06, 2018 @06:07PM |
Twitter Suspended 70 Million Accounts In Past Two Months, Says Report |
Thursday July 05, 2018 @05:03PM |
Apple's App Store Celebrates 10th Anniversary |
Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:30PM |
Forty Years of Spam Email |
Wednesday May 02, 2018 @12:40PM |
Facebook Brags That Messenger Has 300,000 Business Bots |
Wednesday April 11, 2018 @07:18PM |
Google's Phone App Is Getting the Power To Send Spam Calls Straight To Voicemail |
Wednesday February 14, 2018 @07:32PM |
Facebook Is Spamming Users Via Their 2FA Phone Numbers |
Thursday February 01, 2018 @12:29AM |
Twitter Notifies 1.4 Million Users of Interaction With Russian Accounts |
Sunday January 14, 2018 @03:26PM |
Text Message Scammer Gets Five Years in Prison |
Friday January 12, 2018 @09:49PM |
Erroneous 'Spam' Flag Affected 102 npm Packages |
Monday December 18, 2017 @05:33PM |
Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares |
Friday November 24, 2017 @06:28PM |
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked |
Monday November 20, 2017 @12:35PM |
Spam Is Back |
Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:50PM |
Phone Companies Get New Tools To Block Spam Calls |
Wednesday November 15, 2017 @04:45PM |
Amazon Is Cutting Prices at Whole Foods Again |
Friday November 10, 2017 @11:17AM |
Security Firm Creates Chatbot To Respond To Scam Emails On Your Behalf |
Thursday November 02, 2017 @08:17PM |
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time |
Friday October 13, 2017 @06:41PM |
The Real Inside Story of How Commodore Failed |
Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:01PM |
Code is Too Hard To Think About |
Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:41PM |
How One Writer Is Battling Tech-Induced Attention Disorder |
Tuesday August 29, 2017 @09:00PM |
Massive New Spambot Ensnares 711,000,000 Email Addresses |
Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:03PM |
Fake Messages Rigged With Malware Are Spreading Via Facebook Messenger |
Monday August 21, 2017 @02:42PM |
Microsoft Speech Recognition Now As Accurate As Professional Transcribers |
Friday August 18, 2017 @03:31PM |
Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code |
Friday May 12, 2017 @09:26AM |
Nuisance Call Firm Keurboom Hit With Record Fine |
Friday May 05, 2017 @07:33PM |
39 Years Ago The World's First Spam Was Sent |
Monday May 01, 2017 @06:26PM |
Security Researcher and Alleged Spam Operator To Square Off In Court In Ugly Lawsuit |
Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:14AM |
Airline Fined For Sending 3.3 Million Unwanted Emails |
Friday March 24, 2017 @02:20PM |
T-Mobile Kicks Off Industry Robocall War With Network-Level Blocking and ID Tools |
Friday March 17, 2017 @11:23PM |
Could We Eliminate Spam With DMARC? |
Thursday March 09, 2017 @09:45AM |
Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage |
Monday March 06, 2017 @02:38PM |
Huge Database Leak Reveals 1.37 Billion Email Addresses and Exposes Illegal Spam Operation |
Monday March 06, 2017 @10:31AM |
Exploit that Caused iPhones To Repeatedly Dial 911 Reveals Grave Cybersecurity Threat, Say Experts |
Friday March 03, 2017 @12:46AM |
Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Indiana State Business -- and It Got Hacked |
Sunday February 26, 2017 @06:50PM |
Is Google's Comment Filtering Tool 'Vanishing' Legitimate Comments? |
Friday February 24, 2017 @04:50PM |
World's Largest Spam Botnet Adds DDoS Feature |
Saturday February 11, 2017 @03:01AM |
Spammer Faces Decades In Prison For Sending More Than 1 Million Spam Emails |
Thursday February 09, 2017 @01:37AM |
Programmer Develops Phone Bot To Target Windows Support Scammers |
Tuesday January 24, 2017 @06:01PM |
Researchers Discover Massive Networks of Fake Twitter Accounts |
Tuesday December 20, 2016 @05:28PM |
AT&T Is Adding a Spam Filter For Phone Calls |
Tuesday December 20, 2016 @01:26PM |
Nigerian Man Charged in Hacking of Los Angeles County Emails |
Monday December 12, 2016 @12:08PM |
Apple Introduces 'Report Junk' Option To Deal With iCloud Calendar Spam Invites |
Tuesday November 29, 2016 @11:27AM |
It's Not Just You, iCloud Calendar Spam is On the Rise |
Friday November 18, 2016 @01:15AM |
New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts |
Sunday October 30, 2016 @05:21PM |
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns |
Friday September 30, 2016 @03:56PM |
Amazon Marketplace Shoppers Slam the Spam |
Monday September 26, 2016 @09:41AM |
Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change |
Saturday September 24, 2016 @11:20AM |
Spam Hits Its Highest Level Since 2010 |
Friday September 09, 2016 @10:01AM |
AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health |
Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:01PM |
Microsoft Deprecating 'Obsolete' SmartScreen Spam Filters In Outlook and Exchange |
Thursday July 28, 2016 @06:54PM |
Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You |
Thursday July 28, 2016 @10:42AM |
The Most Popular Product Of All Time |
Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:38PM |
Clinton's Private Email Was Blocked By Spam Filters, So State IT Turned Them Off |
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:15PM |
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose |
Tuesday June 21, 2016 @06:10PM |
3 Million Strong Botnet Grows Right Under Twitter's Nose |
Wednesday June 15, 2016 @04:30PM |
'Spam King' Sanford Wallace Sentenced To 2.5 Years In Prison For Facebook Phishing Scam |
Friday June 10, 2016 @09:28AM |
Woman Uses 'Hey Siri' To Call An Ambulance and Help Save Her Child's Life |
Friday June 03, 2016 @06:47PM |
WordPress Sites Under Attack From New Zero-Day In WP Mobile Detector Plugin |
Tuesday May 31, 2016 @12:13AM |
Microsoft Will Stop Spamming Android Users With Office Ads In The Notification Tray |
Friday May 27, 2016 @11:06AM |
Scott Walker Rents Out Email and Donor Lists To Pay Campaign Debt |
Thursday April 28, 2016 @10:50AM |
Dyson Launches New 'Supersonic' Hair Dryer To Revolutionize Hair Care |
Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:45PM |
AT&T Looks To Sell Cyanogen-Powered ZTE Phone To Snub Google |
Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:07AM |
MuckRock Launches March Madness -- For FOIA |
Monday March 14, 2016 @04:55PM |
Docs With Malicious Macros Deliver Fileless Malware |
Saturday February 13, 2016 @01:05AM |
BT Announces Free Service To Screen Nuisance Callers |
Friday February 05, 2016 @12:21PM |
A Bot That Drives Robocallers Insane |
Friday January 29, 2016 @05:00PM |
Ask Slashdot: Why Are Major Companies Exiting the Spam Filtering Business? |
Sunday January 24, 2016 @12:27AM |
DOJ and 4 States Want $24 Billion In Fines From Dish Network For Telemarketing |
Saturday January 09, 2016 @12:21AM |
Oracle Brings Real-Time Kernel Patching To Oracle Enterprise Linux |
Sunday November 15, 2015 @10:18AM |
'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday |
Tuesday October 13, 2015 @08:27AM |
First Legal Union of Illegal Street Vendors Created In Barcelona |
Thursday October 08, 2015 @05:58AM |
Bitcoin Transactions Were Under Attack for a Week, Prankster Reveals Himself |
Thursday September 10, 2015 @08:03AM |
US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup |
Thursday September 03, 2015 @08:47PM |
Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate |
Tuesday September 01, 2015 @11:24AM |
Ask Slashdot: Should I Publish My Collection of Email Spamming IP Addresses? |
Tuesday July 21, 2015 @12:30PM |
Gmail Spam Filter Changes Bite Linus Torvalds |
Friday July 17, 2015 @06:25PM |
A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email |
Friday July 10, 2015 @09:14AM |
OCZ Toshiba Breaks 40 Cent Per GB Barrier With New Trion 100 Series SSD |
Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:57AM |
Time Warner Cable Owes $229,500 To Woman It Would Not Stop Calling |
Friday July 03, 2015 @04:54PM |
Leased LEDs and Energy Service Contracts can Cut Electric Bills (Video) |
Monday June 22, 2015 @12:43PM |
Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? |
Thursday June 18, 2015 @08:24AM |
86.2 Million Phone Scam Calls Delivered Each Month In the US |
Friday June 05, 2015 @04:39PM |
NOAA: Global Warming 'Pause' Never Happened |
Monday May 25, 2015 @08:10AM |
Dell Precision M3800 Mobile Workstation Packs Thunderbolt 2, Quadro, IGZO2 Panel |
Friday May 01, 2015 @07:05PM |
Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think |
Sunday April 19, 2015 @02:37PM |
Whoah, Small Spender! Steam Sets Limits For Users Who Spend Less Than $5 |
Saturday March 07, 2015 @12:57PM |
FTC Announces $50k In Prizes For Robocaller Trap Software |
Saturday March 07, 2015 @08:40AM |
NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool |
Thursday March 05, 2015 @03:07PM |
CRTC Issues $1.1 Million Penalty To Compu-Finder For Spamming Canadians |
Friday February 06, 2015 @02:33PM |
Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call |
Saturday January 31, 2015 @07:27PM |
How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year |
Thursday January 22, 2015 @02:22PM |
Fujitsu Psychology Tool Profiles Users At Risk of Cyberattacks |
Saturday January 17, 2015 @01:51PM |
FCC May Permit Robocalls To Cell Phones -- If They Are Calling a Wrong Number |
Thursday January 08, 2015 @04:31PM |
Four Facepalm Bugs In USPS Label-Printing Site |
Wednesday December 10, 2014 @04:28PM |
An Algorithm To Prevent Twitter Hashtag Degeneration |
Tuesday December 09, 2014 @09:47AM |
AdNauseam Browser Extension Quietly Clicks On Blocked Ads |
Wednesday December 03, 2014 @05:04PM |
Twitter Should Use Random Sample Voting For Abuse Reports |
Sunday November 16, 2014 @04:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With VoIP Fraud/Phishing Scams? |
Thursday November 13, 2014 @12:54PM |
Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? |
Thursday November 13, 2014 @08:11AM |
How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music |
Sunday November 02, 2014 @01:41PM |
Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? |
Monday October 13, 2014 @10:26AM |
Ask Slashdot: Why Can't Google Block Spam In Gmail? |
Tuesday September 30, 2014 @10:11PM |
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 |
Monday September 08, 2014 @01:23PM |
The Five Nigerian Gangs Behind Most Craigslist Buyer Scams |
Tuesday August 26, 2014 @12:24PM |
TechCentral Scams Call Center Scammers |
Monday August 25, 2014 @03:59PM |
Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide |
Sunday August 24, 2014 @03:51AM |
The Making of the Making of Nihilumbra |
Thursday August 21, 2014 @09:29AM |
Couchsurfing Hacked, Sends Airbnb Prank Spam |
Saturday August 16, 2014 @08:00PM |
Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence |
Thursday August 14, 2014 @03:00PM |
Google Expands Safe Browsing To Block Unwanted Downloads |
Wednesday August 13, 2014 @04:26PM |
Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched |
Wednesday August 13, 2014 @11:35AM |
Password Gropers Hit Peak Stupid, Take the Spamtrap Bait |
Sunday August 10, 2014 @10:39PM |
Memo to Users: SpamCop Winding Down Webmail Service |
Saturday August 09, 2014 @09:40AM |
Add a TV Tuner To Your Xbox (In Europe) |
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @01:15AM |
Harvesting Wi-Fi Backscatter To Power Internet of Things Sensors |
Thursday July 24, 2014 @09:15PM |
Internet Explorer Vulnerabilities Increase 100% |
Tuesday July 22, 2014 @05:19AM |
Print Isn't Dead: How Linux Voice Crowdfunded a New Magazine |
Monday July 21, 2014 @12:59PM |
Apple Gets Its First Batch of iPhone Chips From TSMC |
Monday July 21, 2014 @12:56PM |
Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be |
Sunday July 20, 2014 @12:52PM |
"Intelligent" Avatars Poised To Manage Airline Check-In |
Saturday June 28, 2014 @08:24AM |
Microsoft Suspending "Patch Tuesday" Emails |
Tuesday June 17, 2014 @10:50AM |
Researchers Outline Spammers' Business Ecosystem |
Saturday April 05, 2014 @11:06PM |
Reasons You're Not Getting Interviews; Plus Some Crazy Real Resume Mistakes |
Friday March 28, 2014 @11:12PM |
Used IT Equipment Can Be Worth a Fortune (Video) |
Saturday February 22, 2014 @02:52PM |
Gmail's 'Unsubscribe' Tool Comes Out of the Weeds |
Tuesday February 18, 2014 @09:09PM |
Ask Slashdot: Anti-Camera Device For Use In a Small Bus? |
Sunday February 09, 2014 @09:08PM |
LinkedIn Ditches Feature That Was a 'Dream For Attackers' |
Friday January 17, 2014 @10:01PM |
The Spamming Refrigerator |
Monday January 06, 2014 @07:47PM |
Emmett Plant Talks About the Paper-Based RPG Game Business (Video) |
Sunday January 05, 2014 @07:39AM |
Rap Genius Returns To Google Search Rankings |