You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture ...

Popular Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp may soon introduce new message limits that could cut down on spam. According to TechCrunch, WhatsApp is testing a feature that restricts the number of ...

Attackers are increasingly abusing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to insert hidden text and characters into emails in a tactic designed to bypass filters and slip spam and other malicious messages past ...

We've all received a call or text from a number we don't recognize. But beyond the occasional wrong number or pocket-dial situation, many of these are spam calls that fortunately can be stopped.

Spam is annoying and can sometimes be dangerous if it's part of a widespread phishing attack. When you see spam, you delete it, at least that's what conventional wisdom suggests. However, it now seems ...

Spotify on Thursday announced a series of updates to its AI policy, designed to better indicate when AI is being used to make music, to cut down on spam, and to make it clearer that unauthorized voice ...

Google’s August 2025 spam update rollout is now complete. The spam update started Aug. 26, just under 27 days ago, finishing on Sept. 22. This was the first spam update of 2025, while there were three ...

Google classifies “spam updates” as notable improvements to its automated spam-prevention systems, including SpamBrain. These releases aim to better detect and reduce spam in search results rather ...

An old foe of Apple device owners has returned, as reports indicate that spam invites sent to Apple's Calendar app are once again wreaking havoc. While Apple Calendar spam has never truly ceased to ...

On Thursday, FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging that Gmail's spam filters routinely block messages from Republican senders but fail to block similar ...

A former Senior Publishing Editor on the Dow Jones Newswires team at The Wall Street Journal, Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and a Master's in Journalism ...