A few strange spam messages led a writer for Salon to discover a huge scam costing taxpayers a lot of money. It all started when he got an email from BachelorDegreeOnline.com asking him to remove a link to them from …

Those of you who hold a mad, crazy iLove for your iDevices should stop reading now. Apple Corp. would have people believe that it invented the computer mouse (it didn’t), the GUI (it didn’t), and running water (okay, we made …

  Dropbox users are again complaining about receiving spam at the email addresses they have registered with the service and blaming it on the data breach the popular storage service suffered last year. Users say they believe their email addresses …

If you’ve spent any time at all as a IT professional, you know that your colleagues have what to outsiders could only be considered a bizarre sense of humour, and will often latch on to memes and other pop culture …

2013 is speeding along and, as usual, spam is at the top of the headlines. Here’s a look at what made the news in the spam world in February: Dropbox Users Complaining About New Spam Attack http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/02/28/dropbox-users-complain-of-spam-emails-reminiscent-of-last-years-data-leak-company-is-investigating/ Apple Acknowledges Issue …

Some anti-spam filters rely solely on technology to do their jobs. This is adequate for stopping many of the malicious emails that are out there, however this method fails to take into consideration one of the greatest tools there is …

Google is continuing its fight against spammers by strengthening its anti-spam controls. They announced this week that they’ve tweaked their algorithms to further fine tune them and adding new tools to keep their user’s accounts safe. “Although spam filters have become very …

Welcome back. In our last post, we took a look at the very first email spam message ever sent. If you haven’t read that post yet, you may want to do that first, before proceeding with this one. Go ahead, …

Facebook, Microsoft and Apple, oh my! The interwebs have been abuzz this week with the hacking of three of the bigger kids on the technology field; and while conspiracy theorists continue to push the Chinese military as the bully, it …

In the beginning, there was the ARPANET, and all was well with the world. The ARPANET was the term given to the collection of networks that would eventually give rise to the Internet we all know and love today. Electronic …