Microsoft is in the process of relaunching its Hotmail email service with the bold and intriguing mission statement: "Hotmail Starts the War on Graymail". After having successfully reduced the amount of spam messages that you will receive in your inbox...

Twitter has written a smug blog post about how well it's managed to reduce spam on its microblogging service since it hit a peak of nearly 11% back in August 2009.

Despite recent security threats being spread through DMs on the service, Twitter...

It's been revealed how much money Facebook has been awarded in damages over a recent anti-spam case against internet "marketer" Sanford - or as he's known Spamford - Wallace.

Facebook filed the anti-spamming case in February after Wallace...

A website has launched which claims to be able to identify spammers which follow you on Twitter. Using an algorithm which includes followers, spammy words and how the person tweets, among other things, Twitblock allocates points as to whether the profile...

Twitter founder @ev has issued a warning to Twitter users over those dodgy-looking "get followers fast!" websites. He's advising people to avoid them, as they can leads to accounts getting "phished, hacked, or even suspended".

Like any other...

A couple of weeks ago, an American ISP called McColo was shut down after accusations that it was helping spammers send out junk mail including online fraud and child pornography.

It was shut down and suddenly the amount of spam on the Internet...

A spammer has been ordered to pay social networking site Facebook, over $870 million in damages for bombarding the site's members with millions of emails about sex products and drugs.

Canadian Adam Guerbuez, of Montreal, and his company,...

An American ISP was knocked offline earlier this week after several internet security companies alleged that it was helping spammers send out junk mail including online fraud and child pornography.

McColo has apparently been being watched...

It's happening on both sides of the Atlantic.

Just last week, we reported that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning explaining how phishing gangs are using the turmoil in the financial world to extract valuable information...

Virgin Media customers were cut off for 4 days with little or no access to their email as the company came under attack by spammers.

According to the Beeb, the spam problem affected a company which processes messages delivered through the...

According to a new survey, Orange customers are suffering from spam bombardment.

The research from ClearMyMail has led to the compiling of a chart based on how much spam customers from the UK's top ISPs receive.

And Orange has...

It seems the UK is being singled out and targeted by money scams in spam emails, many of which come from Nigeria.

UK surfers receive nearly a quarter of the global total of Nigerian spam emails, says a new survey from McAfee.

The...

New guidelines have been published to help the fight against that most ubiquitous of cyber pests, the spammer.

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group has compiled a list of best practices which it is sending to ISPs.

They include...

Thousands of BT customers faced email meltdown after a Yahoo security update went wrong.

The glitch affected customers who use their own domain names to send email.

Yahoo, which runs email servers for BT, put into place anti-spamming...

An American court has made a landmark ruling in favour of MySpace in a case that will send shivers through the spamming community.

US District Judge Audrey Collins has awarded MySpace a record $230m in a case against two US-based spammers.