Amid all the unwanted e-mail pitches for Viagra, porn and Nigerian get- rich schemes comes this message from computer experts: You ain't seen nothing yet. With the economy sagging and advertisers ...

The volume of unwanted messages–commonly known as spam–has become a pariah for parents, a costly burden for Internet service providers and a […] Skip to content. All Sections.

More young people (18–29 years old) than older people are tolerant of spam; 32% of them say spam is “just part of life on the Internet and is not that big of a deal,” compared to 18% of older people.

Spam — the Internet’s original sin — dropped in volume for the first time ever at the end of 2010. In September, Cisco System’s IronPort group was tracking 300 billion spam messages per day.

In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made US$20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on the planet. But if ...

We were deep in production on our summer issue last week, so I didn’t have much time to think about the extremely sudden shuttering of The Dissolve, the three-days-shy-of-two-years site that attempted ...

Who can resist an academic paper with a title like "The Economics of Spam"? A look at how much spam costs us (around $20 billion per year), who benefits, and why it's so hard to stop our inboxes ...

From 18 months of Internet routing and spam data the researchers collected in one domain, they have learned which network-level properties are most promising for consideration in spam filter design.

In a recent telephone interview, Templeton offered a short version of the sad history of spam. He quickly pushed the clock forward to the 1980s, by which time the Internet had evolved into a ...