Tag Archives: Spamming

Groupon Emails Or Amazon Blasts? Here’s What You’re Purging From Your Inbox

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It’s a new year, so why not start off with a clean, empty inbox? That was my aim when I stumbled upon Unroll.Me, a service promising to sort out your hopelessly clogged email accounts. My...
    






Target’s Latest Failure And How To Spot A Scam

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Undoubtedly you’ve heard about Target's recent loss of millions of consumers credit card data and associated PIN data. Who hasn’t at this point? Target at this crucial moment should of course be...
    






Microsoft Disrupts ZeroAccess Botnet with FBI, Europol and Industry Partners

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Some sites on the Internet seem to think they can get away with anything they want to. One of these was ZeroAccess botnet, a site that illegally redirected the information from SERPs that people...

US Carriers to Put an End to Cramming Charges

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AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have made the brave decision to once and for all stop charging customers for spam that gets sent to them. The fraudulent messaging costs the public $2 billion annually....

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...

Google Stopped Hacking of Iranian Gmail Accounts

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The hackers’ kamikaze effort came at the exact time of the 2013 elections in Iran. Tens of thousands of emails were about to be broken into when Google saved the day by cleverly averting this...
    


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...