Tag Archives: Email spam

#Instapurge 2014: Instagram deletes Millions Of Followers from Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, Beyonce and Many Other Celeb’s Accounts

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There has been an Instapurge that has left Instagram followers reeling. Basically, it was a crackdown on millions of spammers on Instagram and the result is that many people have been thrown out of...

A Teen Girl’s Facebook Typo Led Horrified Stranger To Get Thousands Of Her Messages

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When Wake Forest grad student Kristal McKenzie, 33, was pregnant a few years ago, she decided it was time to abandon Facebook. “I’m concerned about online privacy, and was tired of keeping up with...

Yahoo Breach: email account passwords stolen

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Yahoo says usernames and passwords stolen, information used to gather names, addresses NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo said Thursday that usernames and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and...

Security Alert: The Alarming Lifecycle Of American SMS Spam

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Detailed graphics, blowing wide open the alarming way text message (SMS) spam spreads across the U.S., have prompted chief information officers at telecoms firms to start taking aggressive...

Facebook Spam Yields $200 Million per Year

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Facebook Spammers pull in some hefty profits each year. When calculated they amounted to $200 million. This huge sum of money speaks volumes about the attraction of the wild claims of Internet spam....

Apple Releases iMessage Spam Reporting Tool

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Apple now provides a new facility to its iMessage users. They can now report Apple directly about spam messages. According to MacRumors, a new support document for iMessage spam reporting is now...

Dutch Man Arrested in Spain for Online Attack on Spamhaus

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The man provoked a scandal over the Internet when he attacked an anti-spamming site thereby destroying links and networks in the process. The name given out by authorities was “S.K.” which was later...