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- Twitter starts to get serious about spammers
- Great idea!Took long enough, but better late than never. I didn't know about @spam, so I've just blocked all the spam users that follow me. It would have been more constructive if I'd had an easy way to report them!Dont be like yahooWell if they do the great job...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, Twitter Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Twitter starts to get serious about spammers
- Regardless of how good the reporting is, Twitter still need to get more serious about what it's doing to stop spammers and bots in the first place. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Spammer, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- How Does the State of Spam Affect Your Small Business?
- Spammers use popular events to cover their tracks?. The recent death of Michael Jackson and its subsequent public interest show that spammers are willing to use any notable event as a cover to distribute their messages. Symantec State of Spam report shows that 90 percent of all email coming into...
- Tags: Symantec Corp., Spammer, Small Business, Security
- Webcasts 2009-08-19
- Spotting a new breed of Twitter spammers
- Anyone who makes their updates public ...is a twit!If I don't know you ... FERGIT IT!RE: Spotting a new breed of Twitter spammersI use http://www.twitchuck.com to check users scores and also to clean out my friends / followers lists. It does a pretty good job and has kept my status...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, Twitter Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Spotting a new breed of Twitter spammers
- I've noticed a few new trends with the newest batch of Twitter spammers -- and gullible users are falling for it. by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Spammer, Twitter, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Campaign Monitor hacked, accounts used for spamming
- E-mail marketing software developer Campaign Monitor warned users today of a server compromise that took place during the weekend. The compromise allowed the attackers to gain access to customer accounts, which they abused by importing their own lists of harvested emails in order to launch spam campaigns...
- Tags: Monitor, Spammer, Spamming, Attack, E-mail, Spam, Servers, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- ReputationAuthority: Your First Line of Defense
- Commonly, spammers and unknown solicitors send email to a local domain, domains that match destination or IP address, looking for a valid email address. Once the spammer receives confirmation of an existing address and the profile of the address construction, such as first name plus last name initial"@"domain.com, the spammer...
- Tags: Spammer, Borderware Technologies Inc., Domain, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2009-08-01
- Spammers go multilingual, use automatic translation services
- For years spammers relied on basic mass marketing concepts in an attempt to target everyone, everywhere, thereby sacrificing quality for quantity. Things changed, at least for some of them. Realizing the advantages of market segmentation, certain spammers started segmenting the databases of harvested or emails based on...
- Tags: Spammer, Translation Service, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spam
- Report: Americans dumber than a box of rocks about spamUse data that means somethingThe survey results might be more interesting or relevant if the data were normalized by population. Otherwise to me at a rough look seems that the percentage ranking for the most part would fall along the...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- Spammers like shortcut URLs, too. Should Twitter be worried?
- Spammers like shortcut URLs, too. Should Twitter be worried?Spammer hide original URLPlease be carefull if you get url from sender anonymous,maybe is spam.If you get SPAM with URL Shortcut Tinyurl etc don't you believe it.If that URL is sponsorship MLM,Make Money Online maybe is nothing, but if virus...? and...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2009-07-08
- Spammers like shortcut URLs, too. Should Twitter be worried?
- If you've used Twitter, you know about URL-shortening services such as tinyurl and bit.ly. With only 140 characters at their disposal, users rely on these shortcut links to mask and share their favorite web pages, such as news stories. Now, it appears that spammers are getting in...
- Tags: Spammer, Twitter, Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- 10 Sneaky Things a Spammer Will Do: Just When You Thought Your Inbox Was Safe?
- Spammers can make money with email spam. Most spammers are just sales people looking for an avenue to sell their products or services. Sending out email is cheap and believe it or not some people do respond to their spam advertisements. It only takes a few people to respond to...
- Tags: Spammer, SonicWall, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-07-01
- Attachment Spam - The Latest Trend: Spammers Using Common File Formats as Attachments for Pump and-Dump Scams
- This white paper explains what makes spam such an unbearable problem and how spamming tactics are evolving daily to beat anti-spam software. In the space of two months, spammers have switched from image spam to using PDF, Excel and ZIP file attachments. By using these attachments to send images instead...
- Tags: Spammer, GFI Software Ltd., Spamming, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing
- White papers 2009-06-05
- E-Mail Server 5.2 (Windows)
- Simple and user friendly, E-Mail Server is a robust, high-performance SMTP/POP3 server program. It can be used as a local POP3/SMTP server for your corporation or as a desktop application on your laptop or desktop. Its unique blend of features allows you to send mail from any mail client (complaint...
- Tags: Desktop, Spammer, Microsoft Windows, E-mail Server, F Key Solutions, E-mail, Servers, Online Communications, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-06-04
- Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time
- Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real timePeople still get spam??I think Gmail has made spam irrelevant, but let's test it and see.brett@brettschulte.comhttp://twitter.com/brettschulte/status/1789431680Fools plaster private data on a public domain PERIOD!Only a fool puts private data, pictures on a public domain for the world to see and manipulate ANYWAY...
- Tags: spammer, e-mail, Twitter, spam
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Spammers harvesting emails from Twitter - in real time
- Spammers are no strangers to the ever-growing Twitter. From commercial Twitter spamming tools, to re-tweeting trending topics for delivering their message, a new crafty search technique can provide spammers with fresh and valid emails harvested from Twitter's users in real-time. Basically, the search query consists of common...
- Tags: Spammer, Twitter, E-mail, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- McAfee: Welcome to the United States of Zombie PCs
- McAfee on Tuesday released its quarterly report on Internet security. The results? Cybercriminals have taken control of 12 million new IP addresses since January. Add it up and the U.S. contributes 18 percent of the IP addresses controlled by botnets. These zombie PCs appear to be lining...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., PC, Spammer, IP, Zombie, Network Technology, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-05
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA's
- Google Research testing image CAPTCHA'sThis is not a good ideaAnd is unfair to blind people, who contrary to popular assumptions do use the internet!The best 'captcha' is actually a captcha with a e-mail verification, like some forums I use are going to. They figure that if someone takes the time...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-04-19
- Spamware - Email Address Harvesting Tools and Anonymous Bulk Emailing Software
- Spam works because it is such a low-cost, high-reach endeavor. For very little investment and effort, spammers can reach millions of potential customers, and just 100 responses out of 10 million can turn them a profit. Recently, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported that seven percent of Americans...
- Tags: Spammer, Tool, E-mail Address, Spam Soap, Spam, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications
- White papers 2009-04-08
- Google: Spam volume for Q1 back to pre-McColo levels
- It took only a couple of months for cybercriminals to catch-up and reintroduce the massive spam volumes that briefly disappeared following the shutdown of the cybercrime ecosystem's sitting duck McColo in November, 2008. According to Google's Postini Spam data and trends for Q1 2009, during the first...
- Tags: Google Inc., Spammer, Spamming, Spam Volume, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-04-02
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