LONDON, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- A British mother says she was shocked to discover a Nintendo's Scrabble 2007 game's computer was choosing to play swear words against her 8-year-old son.
APEX, N.C., Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Residents along mailman Steve Padgett's route in Apex, N.C., say he's their hero for refusing to deliver at least seven years' worth of junk mail.
BOSTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The Internal Revenue Service says anyone in the United States who receives e-mail regarding help earning a tax rebate should view it as a scam.
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The volume of junk e-mail fell precipitously Wednesday after a California company pegged by the computer security community as a spam host was taken offline.
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Maryland-based information security training organization the SANS Institute announced the launch of a new computer forensics training Web site.
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- North Carolina officials say they are alerting residents whose names and Social Security numbers were stored in a laptop computer stolen from a state employee.
REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Security experts say a Trojan horse program is being spread across computers throughout the United States due to a Microsoft Windows flaw.
WASHINGTON , Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The FBI released a warning Thursday in Washington that a spam e-mail is circulating that claims to be from FBI Deputy Director John Pistole.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Fear surrounding the growing economic calamity is feeding online criminals' efforts to steal consumers' personal information, computer-security experts say.
LONDON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Nearly 60 million pieces of junk mail are sent to dead people in Britain every year, postal officials say.
VERWOOD, England, Sept. 27 (UPI) -- An elderly Englishwoman received 220 pounds of junk mail in six months after responding to a letter from an unscrupulous company.
LONDON, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Democratic Party nominee for president Barack Obama has become a victim of spammers who use fake sex videos to spread malicious spyware.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The Internet practice of phishing in which people are enticed to give away personal information in response to e-mails is on the rise, U.S. experts say.
WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- Ten million "zombie" computers were active on the Internet in the second quarter of 2008, distributing spam and e-mail-based malware, says a new report.
SACRAMENTO, July 7 (UPI) -- Many young Americans say e-mail is becoming an outdated mode of communication as the popularity of text messaging and Internet networking sites rises.
