Considering just how often Facebook is targeted by spammers and scammers, it is no wonder that they felt it necessary to explain Facebook’s spam prevention systems to the public. Caroline Ghiossi, an associate on Facebook’s user operations team, wrote a post where she stated, “Just as a community relies on its citizens to report crime, [...]
Nearly 300,000 Facebook users have already fallen victim to the “I will NEVER text again” application, thus turning their profiles into launching pads for spam. According to Sophos’ Graham Cluley, “the application, called “I will NEVER text again,” lures Facebook users by offering a video”. The application claims to have a shocking video with footage [...]
The above question popped up when the votes of one of the contestants in Oprah’s “Your OWN Show” competition received over 300,000 votes in just 20 minutes. The two leading contestants are Zach Anner, a white comedian with cerebral palsy; and Doctor Phyllis, an African American school teacher. The sudden spark in votes happened over [...]
Spammers are getting cleverer by the day so they can slip past filters and keen minds of thousands of people that get spam messages in their inbox every day. Recently it was found that spammers are using a new campaign method that utilizes JavaScript to bypass spam filters. In the new trick that spammers are [...]
A new flood Canadian Pharmacy spam has been detected by McAfee Labs researches. These spam URLs are closely related to notorious IPs ranges such as 194.xx.xx.x2 and 194.xx.xx.x4. These malicious IP ranges have produced hundreds of alike-sounding URLs that contain “Canadian pharmacy” spam terminology such as drugs, erect, pill, pharm etc. These URLs also have [...]
Technological advancements have made socializing and keeping in touch with friends and family so much easier. Social networking websites, electronic mail and Instant Messengers have fast become the most commonly used form of interaction in the online world. However with all its advantages, digital connectedness has taken its toll on the quality of off-line relationships. [...]
