Sending marketing SMS without consent is illegal in Kenya, with businesses now facing fines and penalties under the Data ...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has launched a pilot where selected customers will receive an SMS to continue, modify or revoke consent for promotional communications under the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Former beauty queen Maggie Wilson said that “no amount of bots can rewrite her truth" after noticing trolls spamming her Instagram days before she releases her first book that ...

Abstract: In today’s communications, Short Message Service (SMS) and Internet protocol-based messaging systems are the most widely used channels. These services are currently the target of an ...

Google is filing a federal lawsuit against a network of foreign cybercriminals based in China that is accused of launching massive text-message phishing attacks, the tech giant told CBS News in an ...

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...

Article and title updated to remove the term "worm". See update below. An auto-spamming payload published on npm spams the registry by spawning new packages every seven seconds, creating large volumes ...

Google is going to court to help put an end to, or at least limit, the prevalence of phishing scams over text message. Scam texts have been a nuisance for a long time, but they've become increasingly ...

Our condo building has nearly 100 units. Recently, all the owners received the Portland Bureau of Transportation flyer about Portland’s Leaf Day service, advising recipients to rake their leaves into ...

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Kong Ji Chen, 31 was sentenced to 24 weeks imprisonment after using an SMS blaster to spam commuters with fraudulent text messages during rush hour. The court heard a member of the public received a ...