spam

Anyone who spends time online has probably heard of, and run into, websites and social media posts that are clearly being promoted by bots. But just what do those bots look like on the other end? While I expected to see rackmount servers spoofing various devices en masse, according to a post...

Google has announced that it uses TensorFlow, an open-source machine learning (ML) framework developed by Google, to block 99.9% of spam, phishing, and malware before it reaches Google's 1.5 billion Gmail customers each month. New improvements to protections powered by TensorFlow allow Google to...

As criticism of the site increases, and lawmakers start to clamp down on Google, Alphabet is shining a spotlight on their efforts to reign in YouTube's problematic content. According to a report by Reuters, YouTube took down 58 million videos and 224 million comments last quarter. That's over 7...

The EFF and other groups have lambasted the latest FCC vote to keep text messaging classified as "information services" as another measure that elevates the power of corporations over the rights of consumers. The EFF notes that wireless providers such as Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint have already...

The FCC has voted to classify text messages as an "information service" under the Communications Act. This was done to give more leeway to wireless providers to fight spam messages and scam robotexts. Mass texting companies wanted text messaging reclassified as a "telecommunications service"...

First Orion sells call protection solutions to tens of millions of mobile subscribers and the company has released their inaugural 2018 Scam Call Trends and Projections Report which analyzes over 50 billion calls made to their customers in the past 18 months. In 2017 3.7% of all calls made to...

Never click on anything that you do not know what it is...for sure. F-Secure is telling us that spam mail is still in the number one spot for malware and phishing distribution. OK, it has been that way for 40 years, but what is interesting is that email spam is on the way up percentage-wise...

TheRegister is reporting that this afternoon, a glitch in Microsoft Office 365's spam filters caused all incoming emails to be tossed into the junk folder. By around 5pm Pacific time, Microsoft said it had fixed the issue. "We've addressed the underlying issue and affected emails are being...

Twitter has released new developer rules that they hope will stop bots from proliferating across the social media platform. Basically they are saying apps or services may no longer automatically post similar contant on multiple accounts. Additionally, simultaneous Likes, Retweets, etc. can not...

Facebook announced that they are going to start fighting engagement bait spam and demote this junk before it gets in your News Feed. Many companies are putting posts out there that ask you to LIKE this post if you are X or want you to share it with a friend for X reason. To stop this kind of...

Given that most of our readers likely use smartphones and have a ton of applications on those, it very much behooves you to pay attention to that screen during installation that tells you what app has access to. More than once I have looked at what an application is wanting access to and...

This is one of those security breach things that while on the surface seems great that it is happening to spammers, but will likely just lead to more spam email, but however be the end of River City Media, hopefully. The leaked, and unprotected, database is what's behind the sending of over a...