Graphic: Diego Aguirre In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on ...

Receiving a lot of e-mail spam lately? If you're like most Americans, the answer is probably a categorical "yes." Blame it on the Internal Revenue Service. Income tax return filing time is approaching ...

The Internet has transformed the way that political candidates raise money and mobilize supporters, and charities can draw some important lessons from those changes, Mike McCurry told 650 participants ...

On April 12, 1994, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two immigration lawyers from Arizona, flooded the Internet with a mass mailing promoting their law firm's advisory services. In doing so, this ...

A judge in Iowa orders a spam distributor to pay $11 billion in damages to the owner of an Internet service provider who was deluged with unwanted e-mail. But no one actually expects the spammer to ...

The exponential growth of unsolicited junk e-mail -- better known as spam -- is shaking consumer confidence in the Internet and may hamper growth of the online economy, according to officials gathered ...

__1994: __Members of more than 6,000 Usenet discussion groups find themselves the recipients of a message imploring them to use the legal services of Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel to ensure their ...

On April 12, 1994, Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two immigration lawyers from Arizona, flooded the Internet with a mass mailing promoting their law firm's advisory services. In doing so, this ...

Internet bad guys might be able to use industrial networks as remote terminals to send unsolicited e-mails known as spam and launch attacks against other computer systems. This vulnerability came to ...

If there's one lesson the internet has taught us, it's this: community does not scale. Every new element -- 1980s bulletin-board systems, Usenet, email, the web, game worlds, Facebook, Airbnb -- ...