Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?

January 13th, 2012 → 8:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

As the years pass, we often identify them with significant changes or events that occur of their span. Optimists often look for the most positive events over the year to attach to the label, The Year of…, realists however, take …

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Is 2012 the Year of Social Spam?

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Phony Facebook Notifications – More Trick, Less Treat

October 31st, 2011 → 8:00 am @ Casper Manes

One of the things I do on a semi-regular basis is wade through all the  junk and garbage that accumulates in the various quarantine, spam, and junk mail folders spread across my company’s and my personal email systems, looking for …

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The Google+ Experiment

September 27th, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

Google+ has been the talk of the Web since it went into an exclusive beta test environment back on June 28, 2011. For the first part of the invite only phase, people were clamoring for invites. A search for Google+ …

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Spammers Selling Fake Facebook Accounts

September 20th, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Sue Walsh

A study by social media analysts, Impermium, has found that cybercriminals are selling fake and hijacked Facebook accounts for the bargain price of $15 each. Times are tough all over it seems – last year such accounts were going for over …

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False Positives and Spam Prevention

August 22nd, 2011 → 9:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

Facebook doesn’t usually make the news for being overly zealous when it comes to security and protecting its users. However, their anti-spam efforts seem to have managed to land them on the front page again in a negative light. Yet in …

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Sanford Wallace Back in Court: A Win For Spam Fighters?

August 10th, 2011 → 8:33 am @ Jeff Orloff

Proud of his spamming techniques, Sanford “Spamford” Wallace proclaimed himself the Spam King. This arrogance about his business practices probably won’t win him any friends as he faces 11 new counts – six for electronic mail fraud, three for intentional …

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Sanford Wallace Back in Court: A Win For Spam Fighters?

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Google+ Will It Become a Magnet for Spam?

August 2nd, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

Google+ has been growing by record numbers. In just three short weeks Google+ grew to over 20 million users. While that may not be a dent in the 700 million users Facebook claims, when you consider that it took Facebook …

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Spam Reduced, Targeted Attacks on the Rise: Cisco

July 7th, 2011 → 7:00 am @ Jamie Campbell

Recent activity indicates a significant reduction in spam levels, but no one should find comfort in this news. Spammers are making it personal, a new report from Cisco suggests, and at fault may be the law enforcement community for taking …

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Defending Against Tabnapping – No Fix Coming Soon

June 20th, 2011 → 9:00 am @ Jeff Orloff

Web security is full of clever names to tag the different threats that the everyday Internet user faces. The latest is an interesting attack known as tabnapping, or tab kidnapping. Traditional phishing attacks require the attacker to trick the victim …

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Facebook Spam Prevention Scam Propagates, Hackers Rejoice

May 20th, 2011 → 9:46 am @ Jamie Campbell

In the most recent spam scam to assault Facebook, users are being greeted with a message advising them to ‘verify’ their account, seemingly a noble act of spam prevention and surely not spam itself, right? Not so fast.

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