A cure for the H1N1 strand of swine flu has overtaken Viagra as the most spammed drug on the internet, according to medical experts. (more…)

More than 97% of all emails sent worldwide are unsolicited spam messages, according to research by Microsoft. (more…)

The BBC could have broken the law in the production of a programme that demonstrates how botnets are used to compromise PC’s. (more…)

One of the scourges of modern life, spam is a nuisance that many of us have just come to accept as our lives become increasingly reliant on electronic communications. (more…)

The amount of email spam that you receive could be dependent on the first letter of your name, according to a recent study. (more…)

A new report suggests that online spammers could be making multi-million dollar profits despite only receiving one response from every 12.5m emails sent.

Research by computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) revealed that despite a response rate of 0.00001%, spammers could still generate seven-figure returns. (more…)