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Facebook said Wednesday that it has stopped most of the spam that has flooded many users' pages with pictures showing graphic sex and violence.
If you're prone to mistyping email addresses, here's a new thing to worry about: you could be a target for spammers trying to sell you a dream vacation or a diet product by pretending to be one of your friends or colleagues.
A New York broker was charged with conspiracy Tuesday as part of an investigation into the sale of stocks that were promoted through millions of spam e-mails.
Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them.
A 23-year-old Russian man accused of masterminding a vast worldwide spamming network pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court in Wisconsin to violating a U.S. anti-spam law.
A 23-year-old Russian man accused of running a worldwide spamming network, which Internet-security experts say on some days accounted for one of every three unwanted e-mails, is scheduled to appear in a Wisconsin courtroom to hear charges against him.
Police in Moscow say they have opened a probe against a man accused of running a network of online pharmacies promoted by junk e-mail messages.
A federal judge has sentenced a suburban Detroit man described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam e-mail to more than four years in prison for his role in a 2005 stock fraud scheme that netted him $2.7 million.
Facebook said Thursday a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace.
No one here on Al Gore’s Great Green Internet is truly shocked or surprised that Twitter is going through the exact same growing pains experienced by every single social network that ever existed.
A Michigan man described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam e-mail has pleaded guilty to charges accusing him of defrauding people by manipulating Chinese stock prices.
The makers of Spam, long a symbol of frugality, are advertising the often-maligned canned pork as a way to relieve boredom at the dinner table as the recession wears on.
The giant Conficker computer worm, once feared as an out-of-control Internet doomsday machine, seems to have settled — for now — on trying to make money in very predictable ways.
There are plenty of reasons to hate spammers. Add this to the list: They're environmentally unfriendly.
The Supreme Court will not consider reinstating Virginia's anti-spam law, among the nation's toughest in banning unsolicited e-mails.
Virginia's attorney general asked the nation's highest court Thursday to revive a state anti-spam law struck down by a lower court as unconstitutionally overbroad.
Israel has gotten fed up with spam. Anyone who sends out messages without receiving the recipient's consent can now be slapped with a big fine.
E-mailers, enjoy the early holiday gift: Spam volume has been cut by more than half because Internet providers pulled the plug on a Web hosting firm that was allegedly helping some of the world's most dastardly junk e-mail gangs.
E-mail inboxes may be clogged with a little less spam — at least for a while.
The Virginia Supreme Court declared the state's anti-spam law unconstitutional Friday and reversed the conviction of a man once considered one of the world's most prolific spammers.
A 16-year-old who survived when her escaped-convict father fatally shot his wife and a younger daughter told investigators the man lured his family into a sport utility vehicle with promises of a gift and a final goodbye, according to a document released Friday.
Zombie Facebook Profiles Thrive: Robot Blondes Invade Social NetworkAccording to their Facebook profiles, Mandy Barnes, Jasmine Wilson, May Price and Mindy Bennett have a lot in common. So do Meredith Gonzales, Sonja Watson, Lucia Long and Meredith Baker. They are all around the same age (early 20s) and attractive, but not in a supermodel kin …
The Top 9 Spam-Sending Countries: See Where All That Junk Is Coming FromReceiving spam is never fun. Not only does it clog email inboxes, but it's also an easy way for cybercriminals to plant malware on your computer or trick you into handing over some of your private data. A recent report released by Internet security firm Sophos reveals …
Twitter files lawsuit against alleged spammers and spam tool providersTwitter has filed a lawsuit against "five of the most aggressive tool providers and spammers" in a federal court in San Francisco, opening a new front in its battle against spam, it said Thursday. "With this suit, we're going straight to the source," Twitter said in a blog pos …
ACMA warns travel company for breaching Spam rules The Australian Communications and Media Authority has given a formal warning to Melbourne-based company, Ezystays Pty Ltd, following an investigation that found it breached the Spam Act by sending marketing emails without consent of the recipients. Ezystays is an Australian …
So it has come to this. Everyone who knows me here on the vine knows that I support President Obama and that I want him to be re-elected in 2012. Quite often I will show my support by typing Obama 2012 at the end of a comment. I don't do this every time I post a comment but I do …
Gmail: That's spam, and here's whyWondering why a certain e-mail was dumped into your Gmail spam folder? Google will now clue you in.
Dropbox's URL shortener abused by spammersSpammers are abusing a Dropbox feature that lets users share a shortened link, directing people to websites selling questionable pharmaceuticals, according to security vendor Symantec. Dropbox, the file-sharing and synchronization service, has a public folder that is dedicated …
Scams and SpamFiling a ComplaintIf you would like to file a complaint about an e-mail scam or spam, you may call the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) at 1.877.FTC.HELP (1.877.382.4357) or 1.202.326.2222. Or you may file a complaint online.
Mystery Shopper Scam To Evaluate Wire Transfer Services - Spam Referencing U.S. Military Members And Gaddafi - Pox Party Online AdvertisementsThe IC3 has recently received over 250 complaints reporting a new twist to the online employment scam. The scam involves individuals who responded to online ads or were contacted via e-mail as a result of their resume being posted on job websites.
Facebook, Washington Accuse Marketing Firm of ClickjackingFacebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics. The company at the center of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the charges and said it will fight them vigorousl …
Con Artist Starred in Sting That Cost Google Millions Mr. Whitaker, a federal prisoner and convicted con artist, was the lead actor in a government sting targeting Google Inc. that yielded one of the largest business forfeitures in U.S. history. "There was a part of me that felt bad," Mr.
Google Tweaks Search Results to Punish Ad-Heavy WebsitesGoogle has tweaked its search algorithm to punish websites with excessive advertising “above-the-fold,” that is, websites that stack the top of the page with nothing but advertisements. According to Google, “rather than scrolling down the page past a slew of …
Hackers Target Children as Adults Wise Up to SpamHackers are targeting websites aimed at children, by embedding malicious software in free gaming sites, praying on the young as adults grow wise to their strategies. Child-focused malware first affected Chinese sites last year, but now arcade game sites worldwide are growing …
Spam-squirting hole found in McAfee antivirus kitMcAfee is promising to patch a vulnerability in its hosted anti-malware service after it found a flaw that allowed systems where the product was installed to be turned into potential spam-relay nodes. SaaS for Total Protection, the vulnerable software, will be patched on "J …
Virtual Sweatshops Defeat Bot-or-Not TestsJobs in the hi-tech sector can be hard to find, but employers in one corner of the industry are creating hundreds of full-time positions, offering workers on-the-job training and the freedom to work from home.
That giant boulder is your email in-boxKing Sisyphus, as you may remember from your study of ancient mythology, was the poor guy who forever rolled a boulder up a hill only to have it roll back down, doomed for eternity to toil at a task he could never finish. If Sisyphus' sad fate were rewritten for modern times, …
'Spam capital' India arrests six in phishing probePolice in India say they have arrested six foreign nationals suspected of defrauding hundreds of people using text message and email scams. Scam victims were duped after being told they had won a lottery. Authorities seized 14 laptops, seven memory sticks and 23 mobile phones …
The spammers whose names end with NewsCenter, Blog, Journal, etc.
OK, time for venting: I don't know if the Greenhouse is still broken (it looks that way since it is still stuck at "10" pages), but for some reason, spam articles are finding their way into the Newsvine Columnist area of the main page.
N.Y. Times says it mistakenly 'spammed' 8.6M subscribersAn e-mail telling more than 8 million New York Times subscribers that their accounts were canceled was sent erroneously by the newspaper and was not spam, the Times says.
Google and Bing fight off 'content farms' in effort to improve online searchesOnline search engines are meant to pick out high-quality sites amid the sea of knockoffs that repeat information produced elsewhere, but even they get overwhelmed.
Facebook investigating wave of explicit spam including hardcore pornography FACEBOOK is investigating a wave of spam containing hardcore pornography and violent images that has hit users' news feeds in the last 24 hours.
Email spam 'Block 25' crackdown readied in South KoreaSouth Korea is lobbying its internet service providers to sign up to a national plan to tackle spam. The plan requires ISPs to restrict email to official computer gateways by blocking another common route that messages travel over. It is hoped this will thwart spammers who hi …
This Week in Commenter Executions: Who Is It Gonna Be? [SATIRE]We didn't execute any commenters last week. (Sorry, I was out of the office.) But that's the thing about the banhammer: You never know where or when it's going to drop.
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