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LinkedIn, the professional networking site, has agreed to pay a $13 million out of court settlement in a class action lawsuit. The lawsuit, which originated in California in 2013, was …

Investors across Canada have been warned by regulators that fraudulent stock promotions are being sent via smartphone messaging apps like WhatsApp. A spike in the number of cases involving smartphone …

According to Cloudmark and Spamhaus, SoftLayer, IBM’s new $2 billion acquisition, is the world’s largest source of spam with more than 85 spam block list issues. SoftLayer said that it’s …

Prominent UK call centre, Help Direct UK, was fined £200,000 for sending thousands of spam texts which led to 6,758 complaints being filed in the month of April alone. Despite …

In news from the USA, we hear that LinkedIn, the social media networking site for professionals, has made a settlement offer following complaints that it sent unsolicited marketing messages to …

A little over a year since Canada introduced legislation intended to put a stop to the issue of junk mail in the country, the regulator tasked with using the laws …

Earlier this month, AU inboxes belonging to students and faculty members were flooded with spam emails that had subject headings such as “Important” or “News”, designed to ensure they were …

If you are fed up of receiving newsletters from companies long after you have unsubscribed from them, or from sources to which you never subscribed in the first place, you …

The free upgrade to Windows 10 has been available for a week and hackers have already found a way to exploit the occasion to their advantage. A number of spam …

Image spam made a notable return to email inboxes in 2013. Although it hadn’t been seen since its heyday back in 2006 and 2007 when more than 40 percent of …