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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...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- Eric Schmidt on whether Google is getting evil
- I Am A Victim of EvilHere is evil to me.I cannot stop Google from spamming me...or at least one of their Google Groups.A while back I bought an Ubuntu mini 9 from Dell.It was great.I loved it.It got stolen by some druggos while I was using it at Westlake plaza...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Apple hints at possible pen-based tablet
- Pretty much anything that includes the words "Apple" and "tablet" in the same sentence is going to get the attention of the blognoscenti, but when it comes from Apple itself, people pay attention. Exhibit A is 9 to 5 Mac's piece today about a patent...
- Blog posts 2009-11-12
- iWeb Valet 2.3.0 (Mac)
- Enhance iWeb pages, add new interactive widgets and upload only modified files to your server. Add many powerful widgets to your web pages, as clocks, site search engines, auto-redirecting, days remaining fields, calendars, scrolling texts, navigation menus, falling snow and much more. Personalize iWeb page titles...
- Software downloads 2009-10-29
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Fake PayChoice e-mails deliver malware
- partial passwords included?wow... sounds like someone's security needs a serious looking intoi've forwarded many spoof emails to spoof@paypal.com ...why doesn't every site have a similar address to report to? people will *always* fall for such scams so it's up to the rest of us to at least get...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Spam report: Old school techniques are back; companies on alert
- An old school spamming technique among Internet bad guys - using images to hack their way into a system or spread viruses - is back. Google's e-mail security services team reported Spam trends for the third quarter in a blog post today and, among the findings was...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Intuit service shows how little patients count
- OpportunityIf I wanted to make a lot of money spamming people, I'd just send out phony doctor bills.Nobody has any idea how many bills they are supposed to be getting, or how much they are supposed to be. One more for "lab fees" would probably get paid by a...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- 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....
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- Open source does not work well for bad guys
- Open_Source is the futureOpen_Source 'Linux distro' driven appliances are the future, such as the many companies already doing extremely well.Closed source is a huge lethargic insecure monopoly trying to license/patent everything, however it is failing miserably. Look at the exploits of Windows, $9 Billion in damages last year just from...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Additional URL used in similar emailshttp://www.irs.gov.mdtsrv.me/fraud_application/directory/statement.php?email=emailaddress&tid=supposed-taxpayer-IDThis one was just received today (9/16)
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- 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? ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Cutwail botnet spamming 'IRS unreported income' themed malware
- Researchers from MX Logic -- now part of McAfee -- have intercepted a new malware campaign spammed by the Pushdo/Cutwail botnet, that's using an 'IRS unreported income' notices in an attempt to trick the recipients into downloading a tax-statement.exe executable. The Pushdo/Cutwail botnet remains among the most...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- 'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government
- Anonymous has been know for years to be online terroristThe Anonymous group to me is a online terrorist organization, spamming, bullying, and hacking websites at any given time. Their acts are so random that it is hard to take many of their causes seriously. Sad to see...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- 'Anonymous' group attempts DDoS attack against Australian government
- Following a threat posted on YouTube a month ago, the the well known malicious pattern of the "Anonymous group" failed to materialize earlier today when the group attempted to launch a distributed denial of service DDoS attack against the web sites of Australia's Prime Minister and the Australian Communications and...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-09-03
- Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
- Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- 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
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
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