A judge in Iowa orders a spam distributor to pay $11 billion in damages to the owner of an Internet service provider who was deluged with unwanted e-mail. But no one actually expects the spammer to ...

Too close for comfort? Maybe. But nothing is more comfortable than a flight after a hardfought road conference victory like the Ducks earned... It happens everyday and police agencies believe it often ...

Spam, the curse of the Internet, has found an annoying replacement: slop. This new practice has emerged with the rise of generative AI and has invaded social networks. But what exactly is slop? As the ...

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Trade Commission is taking an Internet spam operation to court, alleging that it flooded e-mail accounts with pornographic material disguised behind bland subject lines like ...

Spam, the electronic equivalent of junk mail, continues to overload in-boxes everywhere. Today, Internet users in the U.S. are at the receiving end of a vicious spam cycle: More spam is sent out than ...

The falling cost of text messaging is making mobile-phone users a more attractive target for spammers, according to the GSM Association. To counter this, it wants its mobile-network-operator members ...