The Internet can be a rough place. In the last few months, a number of women in technology, particularly those involved in the ongoing “Gamergate”debate, have been victim to extraordinarily vicious ...

It sounds like Microsoft’s Tay chatbot is getting a time-out, as Microsoft instructs her on how to talk with strangers on the Internet. Because, as the company quickly learned, the citizens of the ...

Around one in five of all UK companies suffered from their employees abusing use of the Internet last year, with nearly two-thirds of large businesses affected. Companies that experienced Internet ...

Yet after American intelligence agencies have concluded unanimously that Russian President Vladimir Putin employed the internet to tamper with the American presidential election, undermine public ...

When Alex Stamos describes the challenge of studying the worst problems of mass-scale bad behavior on the internet, he compares it to astronomy. To chart the cosmos, astronomers don't build their own ...

Before cracking down on Internet access abuse at her family’s 60-year-old auto dealership, the IT director there found a few employees were spending as much as six out of their eight-hour work day on ...

As cybercrime continues to proliferate on the Internet, one industry security group is hoping its work will help stem the tide of spam and scams. The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) held a ...

Miona Bell spoke out earlier this year about getting death threats from trolls online and she recently admitted to dealing with anxiety as a result. In a post on social media, the 90 Day Fiance star ...

Interior Department employees aren't just using their computers to oversee parks and wildlife, an investigation found. They're spending thousands of hours a week visiting shopping, sex and gambling ...

The rising availability through the Internet of commonly abused prescription drugs has raised public health concerns. A new study released today as a Web First article by Health Affairs shows that a ...

The high unemployment rate – 5.7 percent for October 2002 in the United States – hasn’t deterred workers from goofing off on the job. Data from Websense Inc. indicates that Internet misuse costs ...

MORE EMPLOYEES ARE checking their stock prices, shopping for travel bargains, and exchanging personal e-mail via the Internet while at work — even though their companies prohibit these activities — ...