An increasingly popular technique for preventing e-mail abuse is frustrating some visually impaired Net users, setting the stage for a conflict between spam busters and advocates for the disabled.

Last Monday was a great day for us in the office. @ZDNet hit the 400,000 follower mark on Twitter; a joyous moment marked by me in a brief note to our senior editor who, among many things, runs the ...

Bots can tweet at people, share tweets, follow and be followed by other people. And there are good bots and bad. By Sheera Frenkel On Friday, the tech billionaire Elon Musk announced that he was ...

All websites have problems with spam. Many of the large clients I work with have spammers hitting them daily. This is no different for the mammoth players like Instagram. If you’re unfamiliar with ...

It’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m staring at a picture of a tanned woman in a swimsuit that doesn’t quite cover her nipples. This is an unexpected twist in my quest to track down and understand the daily ...

Instagram introduces new tools and safeguards to protect users from unwanted interaction. Users have more control over spam and bot-generated content on their feeds. Automated spam detection is ...

Elon Musk said Friday that his planned US$44-billion purchase of Twitter is “temporarily on hold” pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, adding later that he’s “still ...

Sudbury Police are warning the public about a 'spam bot' on Kik Messenger — an instant messaging program popular with youth. Police said they've received reports that a spam bot has requested sexual ...