Facebook awarded £400 million
Members of social networking sites are used to getting the odd the bit of spam every now and then, these are normally messages sent by other members to groups etc. But for users of Facebook spam has been getting a little bit out of hand, although that could be about to change.
On Facebook one of [...]
Spammers send out piracy emails
It seems that while internet users brace themselves to receive those dreaded emails from their internet service providers (ISP) about alleged downloading of pirated content. Now there is something else that internet users should be looking out for, spam.
The spammers are sending out emails to internet users, these appear to come from Media Defender and [...]
CAPTCHA cracked in sixty seconds
By now we have all got used to the sign up feature that is supposed determine between a human and a machine, the Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) where there is a series of letters and numbers which are sometimes distorted.
Most of time this has proved a [...]
December 13, 2007Spam still dominates email
There was a time when spam as we have come to know it, was only taking up about 5% of all emails, mind you that was back in 2001! Since then the amount of spam has steadily taken giant steps, in 2004 the figure was up to 70% which was when everyone started to moan [...]