The Criminal Enterprise Behind That Fake Toll Text

Short for “SMS phishing”—cyberattacks that arrive via text message— smishing refers to a particular type of spam message that ...
WFSU News

Florida Attorney General Uthmeier’s concern about predators on Roblox isn’t happening in a vacuum

Cecilia D'Anastasio covers game culture and industry for Bloomberg. She conducted an investigation into how child predators groomed children on the platform before Uthmeier started his messaging. I ...
Bitdefender

Spam text scammer fined £200,000 for targeting people in debt, after sending nearly one million messages

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has levied a fine of £200,000 (US $260,000) against a sole trader who sent almost one million spam text messages to people across the country - many of ...
theregister

Sole trader dispatched almost 1M spam texts to hard-up Brits, says watchdog

Britain's data watchdog has fined a sole trader £200,000 for nearly a million spam texts targeting people in debt – almost 20 pence per message. Bharat Singh Chand sent 966,449 messages about debt ...
BBC

Man who sent nearly one million spam texts fined £200,000

A man who sent nearly one million spam text messages, targeting people facing financial hardship, has been fined £200,000. The messages sent by Bharat Chand, from Carmarthenshire, sparked more than 19 ...
WGHP

Florida AG issues subpoena to Roblox for child protection policies

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s attorney general issued a subpoena to the popular online gaming platform Roblox on Monday, demanding information about how the platform sets age-verification ...
The Raw Story

Trump prosecutor melts down at reporter in text chat — then demands it all be 'off record'

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in ...
The New York Times

A Partial List of Sites and Apps Affected by Outages

Major services were having issues, including WhatsApp, the official website for the British government and the payment app Venmo. By Joel Petterson Hundreds of websites and apps were reporting outages ...
Android

WhatsApp Now Limits Messages You Send Without a Reply to Combat Spam

WhatsApp is testing a new anti-spam measure by placing a monthly limit on messages sent to unknown contacts that do not receive a reply. This policy forces businesses and individual users to earn ...