All the stories tagged with spam
Surge in Yahoo Mail Spam?
06/29/2012, It has been reported that some Yahoo Mail account users are seeing a surge in email SPAM. This is a relatively new development because although GMail remains the best player in town for SPAM filtering, Yahoo Mail wasn’t so bad [...]
Spammers take over New York Times e-mail list
12/28/2011, Nobody likes spam, unless it is the stuff that you find in between two slices of bread, and when coupled with a slice of cheese, it can be touted as the perfect breakfast. I guess The New York Times also [...]
Amazon finally cracking down on spam books
08/12/2011, Remember back in June we reported on the topic of spam books taking over Amazon’s Kindle book store? Well, just in case you forgot, spammers have re-publishing books (both out of copyright and those still under copyright) as their own [...]
Hotmail to roll out new features to combat spam and account hacking
07/18/2011, You have probably received weird sounding emails from your friends before, and for those who us who are more suspicious in nature, we think “spam” and don’t bother opening it. Spam and account hacking is not new when it comes [...]
Google Voice now supports Global Spam Filtering
07/12/2011, Tired of receiving unwanted calls on your Google Voice number? Well, the folks over at Google have come up with a way to stop that from happening. Google has just updated the Google Voice service to support Global Spam Filtering. [...]
MyPageKeeper keeps Facebook safe from malware and spam
06/21/2011, We all know that Facebook is already a bad idea if you plan to keep your life away from the prying eyes of people, both strangers and friends. With a network of over 500 million active users – there is [...]
Amazon Kindle overrun with spam books
06/17/2011, If you’re an author who self-published a book on Amazon’s Kindle book store, and you’re wondering why nobody seems to be buying your books – it’s not because your book is unpopular. Chances are, it’s been buried in spam. According [...]
Rustock botnet collapses, world receives less spam
03/18/2011, The Rustock botnet is actually an international network of virus-infected computers that has been taken advantage of for years by generating billions of emails each day in order to promote unlicensed online pharmacies and impotence pills. Well, we have good [...]
Websense Defensio Keeps Facebook Pages Free of Inappropriate Content
02/28/2011, [DEMO Spring 2011] Websense Defensio provides a social media security solution that helps organization to automatically detects spam or inappropriate content on their Facebook page. Websense Defensio, as well as the full family of Websense TRITON™ solutions, are based on [...]
Hotmail to offer disposable email addresses
02/04/2011, Microsoft has just announced that they will be offering temporary email addresses to their Hotmail users. Targeted at subscribers who need an email address just to sign up for a forum or some online service temporarily, this service will allow [...]
