Slashdot Items Tagged "spam"

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