Fans of “Twilight” and “New Moon” already have plenty to be scared about–vampires, werewolves, a swirling debate over the feminist values of Stephenie Meyer’s hit series.
Cybercriminals are capitalizing on swine-flu fears by pitching sales of fake Tamiflu, security firm Sophos said.
Networks of fraudsters use spam and malware to direct Web traffic to phony pharmaceutical sites, wrote Graham Cluley, a technology consultant for Sophos.
Newsletters, product offers, Facebook and Twitter notifications, that person you don’t know who emails you a 7MB file. It adds up. And Gmail’s supposedly “endless” space might not be keeping pace.
Twitter quietly started checking the URLs that its users post, a security measure aimed at weeding out links to known malware sites.
As online security firm F-Secure points out, the microblogging service “is increasingly targeted by worms, spam and account hijacking” and can easily filter links posted through it.
Twitter said Thursday that changes it is making to reduce spam accounts and resolve “data inconsistencies” will decrease follower numbers for some users.
“No legitimate followings should be affected,” it said in a post on its status account.
Be honest: have you ever responded to a spam e-mail? Do you know anyone who has?
The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge–the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part–the part a machine can do.
With the Iranian government blocking and limiting the use of social networking sites, cellphone signals and Internet connections, Twitter has proved to be a crucial tool for embattled Iranian protesters to alert the rest of the world about the nation’s post-election conflicts.
Email users may already hate spam, but perhaps they’ll be gratified to know that it’s also bad for the environment.
Calculating one’s carbon footprint may be all the rage, but in the case of spam, it’s serious, according to a study released Wednesday by computer security company McAfee Avert Labs.
You may have heard about Conficker, the rogue computer program that might do something dreadful on April 1. The truth is that the threat posed by Conficker is almost entirely theoretical, and that only a handful of dedicated professionals will notice anything out of the ordinary when that date comes around.
Craigslist has entered into an agreement with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Attorneys General of 40 states to enact measures that it claims are targeted toward fighting child exploitation, but largely focuses on reducing spam and (adult) prostitution.
Spammers prefer Sen. Barack Obama (D., Ill.) over his rival, Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), by landslide-like numbers.
John Nagle writes in with a fascinating dissection of the ongoing battle between Craigslist and spammers. The back-and-forth nature of this battle is fascinating–and somewhat disturbing when you realize the lengths to which spammers will go to get spam onto Craigslist, and the extent to which an entire ecosystem of scammers and software providers seems to have been built up around this effort.
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