News tagged with spammers


As Web communication shrinks, so do links

Technology / Internet

created May 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- On the short-messaging service Twitter, space is at a premium: You've got 140 characters to make your point, and you probably don't want to waste half of it on a super-sized link to your latest YouTube obsession.





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The number of text messages that a mobile user in S.Korea can send out a day has been restricted to 500, down from 1,000

S.Korea halves ceiling on text messages to fight spam

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean authorities on Wednesday halved the daily limit on text messages sent out by mobile phones as part of a campaign against spam, officials said.


Twitter has added a tool that lets users flag accounts of spammers

Twitter launches tool for nailing spammers

Technology / Internet

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Twitter added a tool that lets users flag accounts of spammers at the globally-popular microblogging service.


NJ man is first to be charged with Web name theft

Technology / Internet

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A northern New Jersey man is charged with stealing a prime piece of Internet real estate and reselling it to basketball player Mark Madsen in one of the nation's first prosecutions of a suspected domain name thief.


U r pwned: text messaging paves way for hacking

Technology / Telecom

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Getting a text message is akin to someone sliding a piece of mail under your door: You may not have asked for it, you can't stop its delivery and you have to deal with it whether you want to or not.


Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks

Touch typists could help stop spammers in their tracks

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer scientists at Newcastle University are about to give office workers a perfect excuse to play games: it's all in the name of research. Dr Jeff Yan, together with his PhD student Su-Yang ...


Cisco Systems logo is seen in front of the company's headquarters in San Jose, California

Cyber crime lords using big business tactics: Cisco

Technology / Internet

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cyber criminals are aping executives when it comes to sales, marketing and risk management in the world of online treachery, according to a report released by networking giant Cisco.


Jackson's death unleashes barrage of online scams

Technology / Internet

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Minutes after any big celebrity dies, Internet swindlers get to work. They pump out specially created spam e-mails and throw up malicious Web sites to infect victims' computers, hoping to capitalize on the sudden ...


FTC shuts allegedly rogue Internet provider

Technology / Internet

created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(AP) -- The federal government has severed the Internet connection of a company accused of helping criminals serve up a "witches' brew" of nasty content online, from computer viruses to child pornography.


Hackers appear to be beefing up armies of "zombie" computers to recover from a hit scored in the battle against spam

Spam down but 'zombie' armies growing: McAfee

Technology / Internet

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hackers appear to be beefing up armies of "zombie" computers to recover from a major hit scored in the battle against spam email, according to software security firm McAfee.


A man looks through the window of an internet cafe at a bus terminal in Mexico City

Internet 'flooded with swine virus spam emails'

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Spam emails using "swine flu" as a keyword phrase have flooded the Internet as opportunists seek to exploit concerns over the outbreak of the virus, a global cyber security firm warned Thursday.



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