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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 the last quarter. According to Google, overall spam levels in the second

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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 posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want

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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 gladly jump in and fill the void. According to Google, that's exactly

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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 an easy way to keep spammers away from your web sites, but

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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 their wares featured on the service. Right now, under the technology section,

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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 spambot, are an annoyance to many users. According to a report in

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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 virtually unlimited amount of disposable email addresses to use whenever you think

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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 spam bookmarking services for pennies per link. Although these HITs may stop

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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 purchased something from a spam e-mail. While that number seems pretty questionable,

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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 of the tech community. However, the platform might be getting a new

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