Popular meal-kit company HelloFresh has been hit with a paltry £140,000 ($178,000) fine after an investigation by Britain’s data privacy watchdog revealed the company sent more than 80 million unsolicited emails and text messages.
A recent study by Indiana University researchers reveals a surge in AI-generated spam bots on social media platforms, particularly exploiting OpenAI’s ChatGPT to promote scams and degrade online information quality.
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday published a report about a pro-China entity known as “Dragonbridge” or “Spamouflage Dragon” that flooded YouTube and other platforms with tens of thousands of messages last year.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) voted on Thursday to allow Google to go ahead with a pilot program that would allow campaign emails to bypass spam filters. That plan was developed in response to heavy criticism of Gmail, which a study demonstrated filtered more conservative emails out as spam when compared to their leftist opponents.
The plague of inflation and criminal activity in New York City has caused one store to lock up its Spam.
Tech giant Facebook recently admitted that it marked posts linking to genuine information and articles about the Wuhan coronavirus as spam, blaming a “bug in an anti-spam system.”
Facebook was stopping users from posting links to Breitbart News and New York Post articles this week, claiming they count as “spam” and don’t follow “Community Standards.” The company later apologized, calling it a “bug.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has “quietly solved” the theft of data from 168 million people, which was attributed to a 28-year-old hacker.
Australian computer security expert Troy Hunt has revealed the leak of 711 million e-mail addresses, which was caused by a misconfigured spambot.
Facebook is rolling out an update that would throttle links from users who are judged to be posting “vast amounts” of low-quality content onto their profiles and clogging up the news feeds of their friends.
Cyber-security firm InfoArmor claims that the data from Yahoo’s one billion user account hack was sold a number of times last August for $300,000 on the “dark web,” and that it is still offered for sale.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s first fundraising email ended up in supporters’ “spam” folders and as a result, reached less than half of the intended recipients.
It will come as no surprise that Internet scam artists, quick to take advantage of every public concern, are looking to prey upon those who fear their husbands or wives might be listed in the database of Ashley Madison clients disclosed by hackers.
Facebook intends to use this knowledge to develop algorithms that can “scalably” silence what it deems to be “noise” in users’ accounts. But what they are really after is to hide un-paid crap, to free up more user space for the good Facebook-paid crap.
Some celebrities noticed a drop in their followings on Instagram Thursday, after the popular social media photo sharing platform announced it was removing spam accounts. Instagram reportedly removed millions of phony spam accounts, telling users, “Your number of followers has
