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Yesterday Facebook acknowledged that the latest spam attack, which sent pornographic content, violence and animal abuse imagery on users' walls, was the result of a browser bug, not the hacker

As of this morning Google Apps customers have the option of signing all outgoing email with the email authentication standard DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM). Users who enable this service

Eric Eldon at InsideFacebook reports that the social network has begun experimenting with a new option for users to report the senders of friend requests as someone they don't actually

Spam Comments Like most blogs, ReadWriteWeb assumes the best about our commenters. We don't pre-moderate because we don't want to slow down your ability to contribute to discussions. If we

Anyone who runs an online site knows that comment spam is a continuing battle. And as the accompanying infographic shows, prepared by social spam fighter Impermium, it is a big

In case you hadn't noticed, spam and phishing attacks through the social networks has been on the rise. Security company Symantec released a report yesterday detailing socially-engineered attacks to

It's no secret that Twitter has become a preferred playground for spammers. Hashrocket's TweetBlocker sets out to change this by giving users a simple tool to easily identify spammers in

Last October, Facebook filed three lawsuits in a federal court in San Jose, California alleging that three individuals were "attempting to trick people on Facebook into signing up for mobile

Has Twitter spam gotten a little out of hand? According to today's top story on Techmeme, it has. Apparently, marketers are calling for Twitter to filter out spam and other

Only 24 hours after the launch of Apple's new social network, Ping, the service has been overrun by spammers. The fraudsters have created iTunes profiles and are posting links to