Ukraine Police Raid Simbox Farms Spreading Russian Propaganda via 1.5 Million Fake Internet Accounts
About 300 GSM gateways and more than 100,000 SIM cards were seized in the operation.
Voice Spam Will Soon Be as Bad as Email Spam
Do not be surprised if customers start abandoning the use of phone numbers to exclusively rely on OTT voice services instead.
Ex-MI6 Spy Chief Says His Emails Were Hacked; Warns Against Simplistic Interpretation of Russia’s Methods
Russian disinformation portrayed Richard Dearlove as a leader of a pro-Brexit group that has overthrown the UK government.
Why Massive Political Bias in Email Spam Algorithms Is Problematic for Free Speech More Generally
Academics at North Carolina State University proved Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have biased email filters.
Big New Study Shows Recipients Should Be Encouraged to Report Phishing Messages
Some people are likely to fall for phishing messages, whilst others are very good at identifying and reporting them.
What Multilingual Spam Tells Us about Fraud
The fundamental economics of crime remain the same, whether the vehicle is an international email or an international voice call.
How to Secure Email
There have been several attempts to improve the security and privacy of email. A new academic paper explores why each attempt has struggled to gain acceptance.
US Fraud Email Operation Yields 74 Arrests
Business email compromise schemes are not going away, as demonstrated by the number recently arrested by US federal authorities.
Email Extortion Aimed at Ashley Madison Users
Our industry needs to think seriously about how we maintain the integrity of email addresses, if we want to keep using them as a key that opens access to other online services.
Hackers Charged With Stealing One Billion Email Addresses
US prosecutors accuse two Vietnamese of hacking into 8 email providers, then unleashing spam which generated USD2mn of revenues via the marketing websites of a Canadian conspirator.