Spam

Spam Down More Than 80% From This Time Last Year

by Mike Mansell July 4, 2011
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With the developments of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, I for one have done a lot less social communication by way of email. No longer does it make sense for users to email pictures or share tidbits from their lives via one-to-one email communication. Social networks allow for people to share with groups of people at once, and the implementation of comments leaves “reply to all” conversations in the dust.

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Federal Trade Commission Endorses “Do-Not-Track” List

by Mike Mansell December 3, 2010
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Prior to 2004, telemarketers – those pesky sales agents who always seemed to call during dinner – were a major annoyance for many Americans.  These persistent sales people took advantage of telephone service in order to harass offer “spectacular” deals to consumers.  However, Americans soon became fed up with telemarketers and took action to rid themselves of them altogether.  The [...]

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Why I’m Fed Up With Facebook

by Mike Mansell September 26, 2010
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As a long-time Facebook user, I have become more and more frustrated and fed-up with the social networking site over the the last few weeks. This frustration is being fueled by numerous instabilities and vulnerabilities on Facebook, some of which Facebook doesn’t even appear to be addressing. As you likely know, Facebook was the subject [...]

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How To: Help Stop Internet Spam

by Michael Morris April 30, 2010
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Internet spam is one of the hardest forms of malicious content to stop from being pushed upon users. Spam comes in various formats. The most prevalent of which is E-Mail spam which accounts for 200 billion messages a day. It also is posted on communities such as message boards and within the comment sections of [...]

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We Need to Fix the Problems With Email Security

by Michael Morris March 19, 2010
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It is no secret that since the beginning of the use of E-Mail there has always been people with malicious intentions seeking to take advantage of users with no technical background by sending them messages containing malware and scams of all kinds. Recently, McAfee alerted users to an E-Mail that has been circulating posing as [...]

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Twitter Starts Taking Security Seriously. About Time.

by Jeff Weisbein December 6, 2009
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It’s about time Twitter started to ramp up their security features.  Spam and malicious software has been spreading through Twitter like wild fire the past several months.  It has gotten to a point where it is really out of control.  Fear not.  It appears Twitter is starting to take some precautionary measures.  I was forwarded [...]

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Chirpio Attempts To Stop Twitter Spam

by Jeff Weisbein May 22, 2009
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Chirpio is a new web service which is aiming to stop the twitter spam problem. The idea behind the service is to allow twitter users to rate the people they follow or just mark them as spam completely. It uses the twitter authorization API to allow access to your account so they are not storing [...]

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The Twitter Spam Problem

by Jeff Weisbein May 19, 2009
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Twitter has a spam problem on their hands and it’s not going away.  Spam which is generally a pretty clear cut subject especially when it comes to email spam, people spamming web forums, blog comment spam, etc. does not appear as clear cut when it comes to Twitter.  What gives?  Lately, the majority of my [...]

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