Spam Clogging Amazon’s Kindle Bookstore
Spam has come to the Kindle in a big way, clogging the online bookstore of the top-selling e-reader with material that is in no way book worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc’s publishing...
View ArticleSpam Business Not As Lucrative As It Once Was
Worms, denial-of-service attacks and spam isn’t as lucrative as it once was. That’s what Cisco Systems discovered when it closely examined the illegal marketplace for scammers and spammers. Cisco...
View ArticleReport Finds Spam Is At A Two-Year High
Spam – particularly the kind with malicious attachments – is enjoying a growth spurt, reaching a two-year high overall, which includes the spike last fall just before the SpamIt operation folded its...
View ArticleCrafty Spammers Create Their Own URL Shortening Sites
Spammers have developed their own services to shorten URLs (uniform resource locators) in an attempt to bypass security measures in place at well-known shortening websites, according to Symantec. So...
View ArticleYahoo Wins $610M In Lawsuit Against Spammers
Yahoo has achieved a big victory against spammers, a legal victory that also includes a default judgment of $610 million. In the lawsuit, filed in May 2008, Yahoo targeted a variety of individuals and...
View ArticleFacebook Takes On ‘Clickjackers’ In Court
Facebook and the state of Washington filed suit against a company on Thursday they accused of a practice called “clickjacking” that dupes users of the world’s top social network into visiting...
View ArticleAre Hotmail And Gmail Evenly Matched At Protecting Against Spam?
Microsoft is crowing about the results of a survey it sponsored that found it is the best email service for blocking spam, if you ignore Google.
View ArticleTwitter Files Lawsuit Against Spammers
Twitter has filed a lawsuit against “five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers” in a federal court in San Francisco, as it attempts to guard against spam, it said Thursday. “With this...
View ArticleFacebook Reports Having 76M Fake User Accounts
Facebook has reported that approximately 76 million of the 1.06 billion user accounts on its social network are bogus in some form. The company identifies three types of accounts that don’t represent...
View ArticleClick Fraud May Have Met Its Match With ‘Viceroi’ Program
A group of researchers have developed an algorithm they say could assist advertising networks to better detect fraudulent clicks. Fraudsters have developed sophisticated ways to perpetrate click fraud,...
View ArticleSpammers Target Google Hospitality-Related Business Listings
Spammers zeroed in on hospitality-related business listings on Google services, changing links in what appeared to be an attempt to drive traffic to a hotel bookings site. Google said it was aware of...
View ArticleSecurity Startup Impermium Teaming Up With Google
Security company Impermium has “joined” Google to aid the Internet giant’s already considerable expertise in countering spam and abuse. “By joining Google, our team will merge with some of the best...
View ArticleCybersecurity Firm Says It Has Uncovered Over 300M Stolen Credentials
A cybersecurity firm has stated that it has found stolen credentials from some 360 million accounts that are available for sale on cyber black markets, though it is unsure where they came from or what...
View ArticleSpamhaus To Roll Out New Data Feeds To Combat Malware
The Spamhaus Project will soon provide two new data feeds aimed at preventing people from being lured to malware-infected websites and domains. The organization, which has long been in the forefront of...
View ArticleGoogle Boosts Gmail Spam Filtering Abilities
Google is shoring up Gmail’s ability to detect and block malicious emails from spammers and scammers that exploit similarities among Unicode characters to trick users into clicking on bad links....
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