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Faking it on Foursquare: Beware of bogus beauties bearing spam

Posted April 29, 2013 - 10:20 am

Foursquare fakes are being used to promote travel apps, and the tools to fight them are virtually nonexistent. Get ready for a GPS spamdemic.
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Facebook’s new ‘Home’ won’t solve its advertising problem

Posted April 5, 2013 - 5:01 pm

Facebook has an ad problem but it has nothing to do with phones. It's that Facebook ads are rife with spammers and scammers.
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ControlBox may keep spammers and scammers at bay

Posted March 19, 2013 - 6:46 pm

Selling items online means exposing personal information to strangers and scammers. Services like ControlBox can make the Net a safer place to sell.
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The true stories behind tech's strangest terms

Posted March 14, 2013 - 8:15 am

You use words like "Bluetooth," "wiki" and "Wi-Fi" all the time, but do you know how those things actually got their names? You might be surprised to find out.
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Attack of the Facebook fatties

Posted February 26, 2013 - 5:51 pm

Weight loss spammers are attacking my Facebook Page and millions of others. And guess what – the spammers are winning.
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How much money are you really worth to that lead gen site? More than you think.

Posted December 14, 2012 - 4:55 pm

In Part II of this series, TY4NS dives into the murky waters of Web lead generators and reveals who's behind all those spammy infographics. .
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Beware of fancy infographics–spammers may be lurking behind them

Posted December 12, 2012 - 9:00 am

Infographics are the latest trick for suckering you into signing up for spammy Web sites. Here's a story about one of them.
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How to make sure important emails never get sent to spam

Posted December 10, 2012 - 5:18 pm

No email spam filter is perfect. Whitelist the contacts you know aren't from junk senders.
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Q&A: Privacy pioneer Ray Everett

Posted November 23, 2012 - 2:43 pm

The world's first chief privacy officer has been fighting for consumer rights since most people thought spam was just for lunch. Now he's doing battle over Do Not Track.
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Dear political campaigns: Just leave me the &%#*! alone

Posted October 18, 2012 - 4:30 pm

You may not be able to stop politicians from burying you in junk and harrassing you with robocalls, but you can make it harder for them to do it next time. Here's how.
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Two puppets explain spam better than any technical article

Posted September 4, 2012 - 2:07 pm

Amusing video takes on spam, offers helpful tips on how to not be scammed.
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About.com just got bought by Barry Diller. What happens to your data?

Posted August 30, 2012 - 7:00 am

Registered at About.com? You've just joined the InterActive Corp family -- and so has your data. Meet your new siblings, Dictionary.com, iWon, and Smiley Central.
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Global effort stops half the world's spam

Posted July 20, 2012 - 3:35 pm

An international effort by spam fighters has taken down the infamous Grum botnet, slashing in half the worldwide amount of spam email.
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Global effort stops half the world's spam

Posted July 19, 2012 - 9:18 pm

With the Grum botnet taken down by authorities and another quiet, spam volumes have been halved, researcher says
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Free TrashMail browser add-on protects your email and information

Posted July 17, 2012 - 8:55 pm

Quite often, you will come across freebies on the Internet such as free music or free eBooks, but as the saying goes, "you don't get something for nothing." In return for that free MP3 or eBook, the site owner will want your email address, which they will then use to flood your email inbox with never-ending spam about Viagra . TrashMail is a Firefox add-on and Chrome extension which aims to instantly stop all this nonsense with a simple right-click of the mouse.
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Facebook botnets have gone wild

Posted May 21, 2012 - 3:46 pm

Is your new Facebook BFF really a fake account being used in a botnet? Look closely and it seems obvious -- but it's apparently not obvious to Facebook.
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FBI center warns consumers how to avoid scams during Black Friday, holiday shopping

Posted November 22, 2011 - 3:17 pm

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center issued a list of tips to avoid the most common scams and offers updates on the latest to hit the 'net as well as easy-to-read briefings to help identify anything suspicious.
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Has the spam problem been solved?

Posted November 14, 2011 - 4:33 pm

Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in 2004 that the problem of spam would be solved within two years. It seemed unlikely at the time, and in fact 2006 came and went without so much as a dip in the crushing load of unwanted email advertising.
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'Spam is up!' 'Spam is down!' Who's right?

Posted October 14, 2011 - 12:44 pm

Two recently released sets of statistics about spam make very different reading. One says spam levels have fallen to historic lows; one says spam is growing faster than ever.
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Spam Hall of Famer Sanford Wallace faces FBI charges for Facebook scam

Posted August 8, 2011 - 6:30 am

Yet another court date and yet another loss in court may finally send "Spam King" to jail, but won't improve the scam-infected, spam-covered Internet he helped create.
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Spam levels drop, as botnets owners find more malicious ways to spend their time

Posted June 30, 2011 - 3:25 pm

U.S. Marshals stopped 30 billion spams per day shutting down the Rustock botnet in March, but no one filled that niche, presumably because spam is now riskier than other crimes.
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As the Internet evolves, is there a place for spam?

Posted June 30, 2011 - 10:30 am

In the late 1990s Robert Soloway made $20,000 a day as a spammer. He drove fancy cars. He wore Armani clothes. He was, by all accounts, one of the most successful spammers on the planet. But if he were starting out today, he'd find some other line of work.
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6 vacation ideas from your spam folder

Posted June 29, 2011 - 1:33 pm

Spammers, take me away! Just because these vacation ideas are spam doesn’t mean they aren’t worth checking out. Legitimately, that is.
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Beware of Skype voice spam

Posted June 3, 2011 - 1:01 pm

My Skype line rang the other day. The caller was listed simply as “Online Help.” Curious, I picked up the line.
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Hacks make Internet look lawless, but security just hasn't caught up to spear-phishers yet

Posted June 3, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Data breaches shake confidence in the cloud, blaming it for security gaps between new technology, old security policies and a human tendency toward trust. Fix that and you're golden.
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