Soloway was indicted Wednesday in Seattle on 35 counts of mail fraud, wire fraud, e-mail fraud, identity theft and money laundering in connection with advertising and sales of his company's "broadcast ...

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 ...

If you've signed into Discord lately, you might've seen one of a number of bots offering the promise of free stuff in exchange for an invite to your server. As you might've guessed, these are fake, ...

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

Twitter merges its spam bot and misinformation teams shortly after its former head of security, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, claims that the social media giant has persisting bot and security problems.

Spammers have cracked Microsoft Corp. ‘s latest defense against abuse of its Live Hotmail e-mail service using a sophisticated network of hacked computers that receive encrypted instructions from a ...

Instagram creators will soon find it much easier to deal with spammy followers and bots. According to a new post on the Instagram blog, you will soon be able to process the removal of spam and bot ...

An arbitrage bot managed to turn 14 ETH to 218.5 ETH simply by spamming the Polygon network for 120 days. The growth of layer-two protocols has been one of the major stories of 2021 as the rising ...