While spam emails are commonplace nowadays, history's first 'spam email' stems back to as early as 1978, a time when the internet was in its infancy. Let's take a quick look at the interesting origin of the first-ever spam email in history.

Twitter says it will begin asking for email addresses or phone numbers to confirm new accounts as part of a battle against manipulation, particularly by automated bots.

Malaysian politicians from both government and opposition camps complains of "dirty tricks" after voting in a general election begins on Wednesday, as non-stop spam calls to their mobile phones disruptes communications with party organisers.

Google says that their users will now be able to ‘block’ specific email addresses-except that they are not really blocked and Google already has more powerful tools to eradicate offensive email that are already in Gmail.