Receiving a lot of e-mail spam lately? If you're like most Americans, the answer is probably a categorical "yes." Blame it on the Internal Revenue Service. Income tax return filing time is approaching ...

Graphic: Diego Aguirre In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $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 Internet has transformed the way that political candidates raise money and mobilize supporters, and charities can draw some important lessons from those changes, Mike McCurry told 650 participants ...

On April 12, 1994, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two immigration lawyers from Arizona, flooded the Internet with a mass mailing promoting their law firm's advisory services. In doing so, this ...

A judge in Iowa orders a spam distributor to pay $11 billion in damages to the owner of an Internet service provider who was deluged with unwanted e-mail. But no one actually expects the spammer to ...

The exponential growth of unsolicited junk e-mail -- better known as spam -- is shaking consumer confidence in the Internet and may hamper growth of the online economy, according to officials gathered ...

A database of more than 10 million spam email messages collected at just one Internet "spam sinkhole" suggests that Internet service providers could better fight unwanted junk email by addressing it ...

Internet bad guys might be able to use industrial networks as remote terminals to send unsolicited e-mails known as spam and launch attacks against other computer systems. This vulnerability came to ...

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 ...

Sanford Wallace, the self-proclaimed "spam king" who has bedeviled Web users since the dawn of the public Internet two decades ago, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay ...

One thing that is certainly no cause for celebration is spam. And yet, it was almost exactly thirty years ago that the first recorded spam message made its way around the Arpanet, predecessor to the ...

How the artist’s transformative energy made us see the world around us. Critic’s Notebook “The Beast in Me” Is at War with Itself The thriller series on Netflix, starring Claire Danes and Matthew Rhys ...