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Bits: Spammers Create a Tricky Situation for Stickam Stickam, a live webcam chat site, says hackers broke into a message board system and made off with users’ e-mail addresses. Now those addresses are in the hands of spammers. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Update: Spammers ramp up siege on Google's Blogger via bots Spammers are using an automated method to create bogus pages on Google's Blogger service, again highlighting the diminishing effectiveness of a security system intended to stop mass account registrations, according to security vendor Websense. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Apple's MobileMe plays into hands of spammers Address harvesting all too easy Apple has inadvertently made it easy for spammers to create a database of MobileMe email addresses.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Spammers use free Web services to shield links Spammers are abusing free Web services to make their spam links look more legitimate, according to e-mail security vendor MessageLabs.One of the services, a photo-hosting site called ImageShack, lets people uplo Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spammers leverage interest in Olympics Public interest in the Olympic Games is helping spammers, who are using text related to the games in e-mails to get users to click through to their malware and phishing Web sites, or to go to product sites, according to an executive at Symantec. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Bits: Breaking Google Captchas for $3 a Day Have spammers cracked the Gmail captcha? If they have, we are in for a deluge of spam. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Bits: Breaking Google Captchas for Some Extra Cash Have spammers cracked the Gmail captcha? If they have, we are in for a deluge of spam. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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The tale of two busted spammers Being a technology reporter, my e-mail inbox is a crowded place. It's stuffed with press releases, notices from mailing lists I subscribe to, invitations to events -- you name it, it's in there. Luckily, it's relatively free of spam. Although, occasionally, a few mana Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Google's Blogger brands users as spammers False positives lock blogs Google-owned Blogger has apologised for wrongly locking user accounts for being suspected spammers.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Spammers Go for Olympics Gold The 2008 Olympics promises to be a feast for fans, and spammers and cybercriminals are working hard to get onto the table. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Internet.com |
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Spammers crack Gmail Captcha Fresh fruit for rotting vegetables Spammers, fresh from the success of cracking the Windows Live captcha used by Hotmail, have broken the equivalent system at Gmail.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Bits: Yahoo + Google - Microsoft: The Morning After As Yahoo’s shares continued to fall Friday, an analysis of the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google situation suggests that the long saga isn’t over yet. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Bits: How About a Three-Way Merger for Yahoo? It might make sense for Yahoo to consider a deal in which it merges with both AOL and MySpace to create a social media and advertising powerhouse Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |
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Smut peddlers and spammers invade Google Groups Junk bazaar Porn peddlers and spammers are upping their assault on Google Groups. Many links on the discussion group site link to porn aggregators, some of which redirect to malware sites pushing Trojan horse malware (such as VirusHeat) disguised as video codecs.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Link spammers go on social networking rampage MySpamBook Spammers have found a fertile new marketplace on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace.… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Tricky Exposes His Roots, Crowdsources Remixes Adrian Thaws, better known as Tricky, has come a long way from his days in Massive Attack with a successful solo career and film career. His next CD, Knowle West Boy, explores his roots in a "white ghetto" with a post-punk, Two-Tone, dancehall sound. Fans can remix the single "Council Estate." Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Tricky Exposes His Roots, Crowdsources Remixes Adrian Thaws, better known as Tricky, has come a long way from his days in Massive Attack with a successful solo career and film career. His next CD, Knowle West Boy, explores his roots in a "white ghetto" with a post-punk, Two-Tone, dancehall sound. Fans can remix the single "Council Estate." Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gmail: The Choice of Spammers? UPDATED: Now that they've broken the CAPTCHA system in Gmail, one firm says spammers are exploiting the daylights out of it. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Internet.com |
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Spammers, Cuil, and the rescue from planet Google Out-Googling Google is not an option Analysis Plenty of digital ink has been needlessly spilt this week over the launch of the suicidally-monikered new search engine Cuil.com. But the only threat to Google is itself and, in a roundabout way, the legion of spammers and "search engine optimisation" Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Spammers Use Free Web Services to Shield Links Spammers are abusing free Web services to make their spam links look more legitimate, according to e-mail security vendor MessageLabs. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > NY Time |