A new report from Seattle startup Hiya highlights the ongoing problem of phone fraud and spam calls. The report found that during the first quarter of this year, nearly 25%… Read More
T-Mobile on Thursday unveiled a new suite of tools designed to protect customers from scammers and robocalls. Dubbed “Scam Shield,” the initiative expands caller ID to all T-Mobile customers and… Read More
Americans received 26.3 billion spam calls in 2018, roughly 80 times the entire population of the United States. Robocalls and spam have become so pervasive that they’re now the number… Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice is accusing three men of being responsible for, or profiting from, what it calls “the largest data breach of names and email addresses in the history of… Read More
Canada’s new anti-spam law apparently has teeth: $1.1 million worth, Canadian. Today the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), Canada’s equivalent of the FCC, fined the company Compu-Finder for breaking… Read More
Random calls from telemarketers and automated machines are already annoying enough. But when those phony calls end up costing you money, it can actually be a serious problem. Whether you’ve… Read More
It’s the end of a long day at work and you’re relaxing at home watching some TV or eating a nice dinner when the phone rings. Interrupted, you get up,… Read More
Microsoft’s ongoing battle against nasty botnets has continued, with the company announcing today that it has dismantled the Kelihos botnet and filed suit against defendants in central Europe related to… Read More
Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit helped knock out one of the world’s most notorious spam purveyors back in March, but the company isn’t letting up on its pursuit of the people behind… Read More
Microsoft this morning released its latest Security Intelligence Report, summarizing the data gleaned by the company about online attacks, viruses and other random unpleasantness across the Internet, targeting products from… Read More