Category: Spam world

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 …

The report from Symantec that made headlines last month saw many people breathe a sigh of relief. For the first time in more than a decade, twelve years to be …

Fans of various University of Michigan athletic teams and programs have been bombarded with offensive posts after hackers hacked their social media accounts, including Facebook and Twitter. Kim Kardashian’s “bloated …

A South African internet service provider has been fined R10 000 for sending spam emails to private individuals. Internet Services and Technologies (iSAT), a South African internet company with a …

A report released this month by Symantec, an American technology company, claims that spam has, for the first time since 2003, accounted for less than 50 percent of all emails.

Despite Symantec’s report that spam levels are at their lowest since 2003 – the report claims that in this month, June 2015, spam levels are less than 50 percent of …