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Verizon Is Wise to Those ‘Similar Area Code’ Spam Calls

The wireless network is working on a filter to help block unwanted communications.

Brianna Provenzano

PublishedJuly 12, 2021

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Substack Just Accidentally Revealed Email Addresses of Tons of Users

Oh god: Someone at Substack accidentally sent out an email blast exposing the email addresses of numerous users.

PublishedJuly 28, 2020

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T-Mobile's Scam Shield Is the Carrier's Latest Attempt to Shut Down Phone Spam

While no one likes being jerked around on the phone, the amount of spam and robocalls we’re forced to endure is only…

Sam Rutherford

PublishedJuly 16, 2020

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Mozilla Is Experimenting With an Email Alias Feature to Help Keep Spammers Out of Your Inbox

Mozilla is currently testing a feature that can generate an email alias with just a single click to help protect…

Catie Keck

PublishedMay 4, 2020

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Automated Facebook Anti-Spam System Goes Hog Wild, Blocks Links Including Covid-19 Info

Facebook’s automated moderation tools went wild and targeted tons of posts about the coronavirus pandemic and other…

PublishedMarch 18, 2020

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Apple's Call-Blocking Feature May Be a Little Too Good

Apple’s iOS 13 release is crammed with features we’ve been looking forward to getting our hands on for months—I’m…

Catie Keck

PublishedSeptember 24, 2019

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Report: FTC, FCC Squabbled About Who Is Responsible for Cracking Down on VoIP Robocalls

As automated Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems fueled a national robocall epidemic estimated at tens of…

PublishedAugust 18, 2019

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AT&T Is Enabling Its Robocall Blocking Tech by Default

Robocalls are annoying as hell, and thanks to new techniques like caller ID spoofing that makes phone spam appear…

Sam Rutherford

PublishedJuly 10, 2019

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Report: Hospitals and Patients Are Being Plagued by Robocalls

We’re already living in a national robocall nightmare, but at least most of the time, for most of us, dealing with…

PublishedJune 17, 2019

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The FCC Wants Carriers to Start Automatically Blocking Robocalls for Free

It’s no secret that the Federal Communications Commission is fed up with robocalls—them, and everyone else with a …

PublishedMay 15, 2019

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YouTube Chrome Extension With Millions of Installs Pulled After Spamming Users With Ads

A popular extension has disappeared from Google’s Chrome Web Store days after it suddenly started spamming users…

PublishedFebruary 8, 2019

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1/30/19

Robocalls Really Were Worse Than Ever Last Year, Report Finds

If you don’t pick up the phone anymore because each time it seems to be one of those annoying robocallers, you’re…

PublishedJanuary 30, 2019

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Google is Reportedly Rolling Out a Feature to Fight Spam in Your Texts

Everyone hates spam texts, but only some Android users are reporting they’re seeing alerts about a new spam…

PublishedDecember 28, 2018

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Twitter Rolls Out Feature to Report Bots, Also Anyone You Think Is a Bot

Twitter has rolled out another feature intended to cut down on spam and misinformation efforts—adding suspected…

PublishedOctober 31, 2018

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Twitter Announces New Rules Targeting Imposter and Spam Accounts

Last month, Gizmodo uncovered a disturbing scheme where Twitter spammers were apparently impersonating more than a…

Hudson Hongo

PublishedOctober 2, 2018

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9/22/18

Do You Answer the Phone?

I’m not talking about when your mom calls. If your mom calls, you should answer the phone, and actually, you should…

Mario Aguilar

PublishedSeptember 22, 2018

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National Weather Service Facility's Intercom, Phone Lines Randomly Overtaken by Message in Chinese

Employees at a National Weather Service center in Maryland were randomly interrupted by a “message in Chinese”…