MySpace : History of Spam & Deception Exposed
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MySpace : History of Spam &#038; Deception Exposed Valleywag published a tell-all yesterday which exposes the company behind the creation of MySpace, eUniverse (later Intermix) as a spyware and spamming marketing company which used its questionable tactics to build its social networking empire with the help of spam mails to dating site members and millions of [...]
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This is really cool!  I finally get my own comment spam!  For some reason I felt left out of the party.  I just wasn't cool enough for the spammers to consider me worthy of their spam.  Anyway.  I implemented my own little turing test.  Now the comments say:  {{{  Turing Test: Are you a human? (required. Just type yes... this is for automated spam prevention)  }}}  While this wouldn't work for all blogs in the wild I'm sure it will work just fine here in my little corner of the blogosphere.  If spammers really want my blog enough then I'll deploy a captcha.  If they solve the captcha I'll deploy a sentient robot  which will traceroute packets back to the host and then terminate with prejudic ...
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Is your computer part of a bot army, infiltrating systems and spreading spam?
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Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Internet users are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study has found.
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A months-old backdoor in MySpace exposes photos in private profiles to lechers and snoops.  Ad-supported websites have risen to help people exploit the bug, and teenagers' private photos are being ogled on message boards.
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I&#8217;ve heard the warnings at conferences and especially in the Social Media Optimization field that spamming or multiple submissions to Digg and other social news sites could lead to the banning of that URL from future Digg listings. Seems that such a horrible fate was brought about on SearchBliss.com although they say that they were not [...]
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Spammers are a key adopter of a technology meant, in part, to fight spam.
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A seemingly routine investigation into spam has unveiled a world-spanning network of spam.
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Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online -- is it really private?
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Kevin Poulsen of Wired News has followed several stories this month about MySpace security breaches.  (parent.thesis) blogger Amy Tiemann asks why these reports haven't gotten wider coverage.
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Tool makes it a snap to match domains to MySpace accounts We've been hearing for years that MySpace and other social networking sites can represent a gaping chink in an otherwise hardened corporate network. Now a London-based security consultant has created a tool that proves it.â¦
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Blog: Researcher shows how URLs can be spoofed and content arbitrary within Safari 3.0 beta.
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Fuzzy PDF menace Spammers have turned a widely-used anti-spam trick - fuzzy text that computers cannot recognise - to their own advantage, according to the head of an anti-spam software developer.â¦
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Also: Vigilante hackers target the wrong guy. See what people are saying on News.com Extra.
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The majority of spam mailings received around the world originate from the United States according to software company Sophos. In order to compile their list, company researchers monitored all spam messages that were sent to their network during 2004.
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Researchers this week reported a spam run that tried to trick users into downloading a Trojan horse posing as a video of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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