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Amazon Turns Twitter into a Marketplace - Are You Concerned?
Written by Sarah Perez / November 4, 2009 6:20 AM / 27 Comments

Last night, Amazon sent out emails to their Amazon Associates members touting the latest addition to the company's

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Spammers Newest Tactic: YouTube Video Spam
Written by Sarah Perez / October 9, 2009 6:02 AM / 13 Comments

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have recorded a mass mailing of spam emails containing a link to a video

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Cartoon: The Worm Has Turned
Written by Rob Cottingham / September 27, 2009 11:10 AM / 7 Comments

Last week's flurry of Twitter DM spam from hacked or phished accounts wasn't the first instance of that

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Mollom Blocks 100 Millionth Spam Message
Written by RWW Sponsor / July 23, 2009 5:00 AM / 1 Comments

Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These

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When it Comes to Spam, Everything Old is New Again
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 1, 2009 9:13 AM / 0 Comments

Google released some interesting data about the volume and types of attacks its spam detection software identified over

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Mollom's Spam Filtering Helps Fast-Growing NowPublic
Written by RWW Sponsor / June 18, 2009 5:00 AM / 1 Comments

Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These

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Google: Setbacks for Spammers in 2008, But Growth Continues
Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 26, 2009 9:17 AM / 2 Comments

Spammers are a resilient bunch. Even if you manage to shut down one major spam network, others will

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ReCAPTCHA Introduces Enhanced Audio CAPTCHAs to Transcribe Old Radio Shows
Written by Frederic Lardinois / December 8, 2008 11:00 AM / 3 Comments

As we have reported before, the reCAPTCHA service, which is based at Carnegie Mellon University, is not only

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Google Blogsearch Already Getting Spammed by PayPerPost
Written by Frederic Lardinois / October 2, 2008 11:23 AM / 11 Comments

Just yesterday, Google Blogsearch re-launched with additonal memetracker features, but spammers have already found a way to get

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reCaptcha: Stopping Spam While Transcribing Books
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 24, 2008 11:35 AM / 9 Comments

CAPTCHAs, those pesky challenge-response tests that many web sites use to determine whether you are human or a

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OtherInbox: A Mailbox For Spam (Invites)
Written by Frederic Lardinois / September 10, 2008 8:53 AM / 13 Comments

OtherInbox wants to help you keep spam out of your regular email inbox. The company gives you a

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Amazon's Mechanical Turk Used for Fraudulent Activities
Written by Sarah Perez / August 29, 2008 8:36 AM / 26 Comments

Amazon's Mechanical Turk has fallen prey to social media spammers and it is now full of requests to

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29% of Internet Users Have Bought Things From Spam Email?? Say It Aint So!
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 19, 2008 1:11 PM / 17 Comments

Security company Marshal reports that their latest survey found 29% of respondents willing to admit that they have

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Google Sites Now Home For Spammers
Written by Sarah Perez / August 19, 2008 5:51 AM / 5 Comments

Google Sites, the Google platform for document sharing and collaboration, has been dubbed "SharePoint Light" by many members

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New Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Causes Chaos
Written by Sarah Perez / July 24, 2008 6:00 AM / 50 Comments

Twitter Anti-Spam Bot Punishes Community Managers and Causes Follower Counts to Drop Did you notice a big drop

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LiquidID: OpenID + Email Aliasing = Less Spam, Safer Logins
Written by Sarah Perez / July 16, 2008 6:00 AM / 5 Comments

A new OpenID provider called LiquidID has just launched a service which offers email aliasing and redirection in

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Social Networks and Spam
Written by Sarah Perez / July 8, 2008 6:36 AM / 31 Comments

According to a new report, over the past 12 months more than four-fifths of social networking site users

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Source of FriendFeed Spam Revealed - Write APIs Can Be Trouble
Written by Sarah Perez / July 2, 2008 8:36 AM / 10 Comments

An interesting note came across our inboxes just now - the source of yesterday's FriendFeed spam has been

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How to Comment About Your Company on Blog Posts, Without Being Spammy
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 6, 2008 10:54 AM / 33 Comments

For every 1000 people who read a tech blog post, there may be one that leaves a comment.

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Ma.gnolia: OpenID to Save Anti-Spam, Anti-Spam to Save OpenID
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 27, 2008 11:00 AM / 22 Comments

OpenID is wildly convenient for users, which is good for vendors, but is that motivation enough to really

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