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- Beware: Spam on Facebook and Twitter has reached epidemic
- another spammer paradise...tell me something I don't know.Duh reallyDuh really,you got payed to tell us were getting spammed?? Well actually you get spammed i don't subscribe to twitter or face book. I just simply email friends and family and guess what,i don't get spammed doing it that way,who woulda known!How...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Twitter Inc., social site, moral code, spam, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- 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
- Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics
- Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter's trending topics....
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Spamming, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Twitter users get phone calls
- Oh great!Twitter/pHone spam!I am sure someone will hack their way around the restrictions and start spamming ANYONE who ties their Twitter account to their cell phone number.MY VOTE IS NOOOOOOO!140 secondsI think a limit of 140 seconds per call would be appropriate.RE: Twitter users get phone callsI would prefer the...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Spam, Cellular phones, Twitter Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Oracle Corp., Mobile, T-Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Motorola Inc., Identity Theft, Phishing, Advertising & Promotion, Corporate Communications, Smart Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Using social media to turn all staff into customer service reps
- There is a strong trend among corporations to use social media to turn nearly every one of their employees into customer service reps and evangelists. Best Buy is an excellent example. It is using Twitter to answer technical queries and it even specifies a minimum of 250...
- Tags: Job, Customer Service, Intuit Inc., Twitter Inc., Social Media, Product Marketing, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- News to know: Snow Leopard; YouTube; VMWorld; Google Books
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Snow Leopard ships with vulnerable Flash Player Sam Diaz: Report: EC considering delay of Sun-Oracle over...
- Tags: Google Inc., Andrew Nusca, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Data Centers, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Storage, Data Management
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
- Two of the main things that gripe me are new sites which rip off the idea from a more popular one, and Twitter spamming with sneaky, human-like messages. I thought it was about time to name and shame. Article by Zack Whittaker
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Ethics, Spamming, Spam, Business Ethics, Security, Spam And Phishing, Leadership, Management, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Rogue Facebook apps steal log-in data, send spam
- Facebook appsI'm already deeply suspicious of facebook apps. Many of them seem to be little more than chain letters ("send this to all of your friends") and many of the "send a drink/snack/smile/ETC" seem to encourage content-free communication. Also, I'm bombarded by "send a drink, ETC" requests from...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-08-20
- Does Twitter's malware link filter really work?
- Today, researchers from F-Secure stumbled upon a long-anticipated feature in Twitter's fight against malicious abuse of its service - a malware URL filter preventing automatically registered or compromised legitimate accounts from tweeting known malicious links. Whenever a Twitter user is attempting to post a link to a...
- Tags: Malware, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- TwitterServant 2.0 (Windows)
- Twitter Servant is a software program that effectively helps a businesses utilize one of the most important marketing vehicles available today; Twitter.com. Twitter Servant is an software application businesses can use to find the exceedingly superior follower that becomes a customer. After using Twitter Servant, businesses will see an increase...
- Tags: Twitter Inc., Microsoft Windows, Labor Tool Set, Twitter Servant, Productivity, Sales Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Marketing Research, Sales, Management, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2009-08-02
- Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeover
- Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverJob-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverI don't know, I think the keg stand pics should stay. It shows that the student can cooperate in teamwork and be social, both of which are good for any employer....
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, extreme social networking, Job-seeking college, social networking, network, recruiting, jobseeker, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Snake oil at its slickest: A social media spam story
- I'll tell you a little secret: I love spam. No, not that icky meat-like stuff in a can. The email kind. I'm not silly enough to click on most of it but I love reading the headlines and intros. The ridiculousness of it all makes me laugh most of the...
- Tags: Social Media, E-mail, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Fake Microsoft patches themed malware campaigns spreading
- Researchers from Computer Associates (NASDAQ:CA) and Sophos are reporting on three currently active malware campaigns using fake Microsoft patch themes as a social engineering tactic to spread over email. The first one is spreading as an "Important Windows XP/Vista Security Update" and is offering a bogus Conficker...
- Tags: Patch Management, Malware, Social Engineering, Microsoft Corp., Malware Campaign, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Microsoft Outlook, Viruses And Worms, Security, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- On Twitter: Difference between spam and noise
- Last week at 140 | Twitter Conference I attended a panel on Twitter strategies and real-world case studies. Overall it was a solid panel with some talented speakers (Jeff Pester, Bryan Rhoads, Warren Whitlock, etc). Unfortunately, amid the good stuff, there was one not-so-little thing that made me twitch: the...
- Tags: Spamming, Twitter, Cyberthreats, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
- 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
- Is Twitter finally taking security seriously?
- Now that Oprah's all a twitter, it looks like everyone's favorite micro-blogging tool is finally taking a hard look at security. According to a job listing posted online, Twitter is searching for software engineers to focus specifically on application and infrastructure security. ...
- Tags: Twitter, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- News to know: Windows 7; U.S. CTO; Quickoffice; Ubuntu
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Brian Sommer: The immediacy of value: Where SaaS must go next Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 Release Candidate due date is...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Mary Jo Foley, Twitter, Microsoft Windows, Home Entertainment, Data Centers, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Virtualization
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
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