Moderating comments on massive social networks like Twitter and YouTube may seem like a lost cause (and maybe it is), but some see it as a necessary evil. Given the sheer size of today’s top social destinations, effectively curbing bullies,…

If you’re on Instagram, you may notice that every day seems to bring new follows and likes from accounts that promote adult content. While this sort of thing is prevalent on all social media sites, the problem has become more…

Like most games these days with a chat component, World of Warcraft has its fair share of abrasive, abusive or otherwise annoying players that try their best to ruin the experience for others. Fortunately – at least, for WoW players…

Sanford Wallace, perhaps best known by the moniker Spam King, pleaded guilty last year to charges of fraud and criminal contempt related to a phishing scam against Facebook. Between November 2008 and March 2009, Wallace gained unauthorized access to roughly…

Spam callers and telemarketers, please run far away and hide. The FCC just announced that they will begin to release data on those annoying calls every week. The information will include the date and time the call was received, type…

Looks like LinkedIn will have to think twice before hitting “Send” in the future. On Oct. 2, the company agreed to pay $13 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought against them in 2013 by people complaining the company was…

A Las Vegas man who named himself the ‘Spam King’ has pleaded guilty to illegally accessing about 500,000 Facebook accounts in order to send out 27 million spam messages over a three month period.

The war against e-mail spam will likely continue indefinitely. Fortunately, the good guys appear to be getting the upper hand as spam levels have fallen below 50 percent for the first time since 2003.

Messaging apps may be getting all of the media attention these days but the reality is, e-mail continues to be an integral facet of the Internet. Another (unfortunate) reality is that spam continues to plague our inboxes, serving as a…

In 2003, the FCC and the FTC took steps to limit the number of telemarketing calls that consumers receive. The creation of the National Do Not Call Registry was certainly a step in the right direction but as anyone that…

Instagram is growing by leaps and bounds. The photo-sharing community now enjoys more than 300 million monthly active users, an increase of more than 100 million since March. Perhaps more importantly, the milestone puts the social service ahead of Twitter’s…

Most of us are familiar with Captchas, those often illegible bits of text and numbers used to distinguish humans from bots when registering for a new service or attempting to gain access to a restricted area.

Reddit is a user-driven community whose business model depends on the submissions of its members. The model works as it should when a Redditor shares something clever, funny or otherwise useful found while surfing the web. Submitting original content, however,…

Apple's iMessage used to be one of the better and safer ways to communicate outside of carrier-based text messaging. But according to security researcher Tom Landesman of anti-spam company Cloudmark, iMessage is now responsible for more than 30 percent of…

Bulk e-mails are a nuisance that everyone with an e-mail account has to deal with. While it is possible to remove yourself from most mailing lists, the unsubscribe link is often buried within the message and takes longer to locate…

A number of AOL users claim their e-mail accounts have been hijacked and are being used to send spam. AOL is on the case although preliminary reports suggest some of the accounts are being spoofed, not hacked.

Facebook announced yesterday that the company is planning to cleanup the News Feed by reducing stories that users report as spam, or dislike. The cleanup targets three categories of News Feed spam: Like-baiting posts, frequently circulated content, and spammy links.

Based on a patent filing, Apple appears to be interested in developing a new email system that will help to better filter spam mail, among other things.

Skype users beware: Kaspersky has discovered a new trojan that's spreading through Microsoft's chat service. Revealed late last week, the malware campaign is believed to have only began on March 1 but has grown rapidly and the infection is essentially…

The Federal Trade Commission recently wrapped up a contest designed to find an effective solution to combat robocalls – spammy automated phone calls that deliver a pre-recorded message to unlucky recipients. The annoying messages account for roughly 200,000 complaints each…

The US Federal Trade Commission has charged 29 individuals who allegedly sent millions of spam text messages to phone users promising "free" prizes. The defendants are reportedly responsible for sending more than 180 million unwanted messages to random phone numbers,…

Tumblr says it has addressed a vulnerability which allowed hackers to force visitors into unwittingly reposting an offensive, expletive-ridden message condemning the "tasteless" and "bourgeoisie" blog site. More than 8,600 users were affected -- Cnet, USA Today and The Verge were…

It seems that no matter what medium people use for communication, spammers always find a way to make it a little less attractive. Junk mail, telemarketers, email spam and now even SMS spam have all likely been experienced by most…

Twitter has warned an unknown number of users that hackers have potentially compromised their accounts. Spam-like tweets seem to be originating from at least some affected users, including TechCrunch's own Twitter account. "Make $250 A Day From Home", one tweet…