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Spammers Fear, Cultural CAPTCHAs Are Here

Cultural CAPTCHA might be the new method attempted by webmasters to keep out spammers from invading their website. A Russian forum is currently testing the method and it seems to be working great. As revealed by Krebs On Security, Verified, one of the most popular Russian forums, has implemented the idea for whene...

19 September 2011
02:32 GMT

Fake Online Stores Take Over Free Domains

Instead of taking over existing websites, hackers prefer to create their own using free .tk domains. More than 6 million names were discovered which at one point or another led to a fake online store that was setup to spread malware. Zscaler researchers revealed that because these .tk websites are free it's ...

16 September 2011
03:00 GMT

Facebook Takes Survey Scammers to Court

Facebook is determined to make a stand against the scammers plaguing the social network in recent months and has filed lawsuits against three of them, for a start.The complaints were filed against two individuals named Steven Richter and Jason Swan, both of Long Island, New York, and a Canadian company called Max Bou...

21 October 2010
09:57 GMT

Dalai Lama Dragged into Spam Campaign

As if the situation in Burma wasn't bad enough already, spammers are exploiting it for their own inscrutable purposes. There is not a lot of news coming from there and people are anxious to know what is going on. A lot of them are supporting the democratic regime, and the situation in Burma is unclear to say the...

28 September 2007
16:06 GMT

CAN-SPAM Really Good For Something!

The CAN-SPAM act has been around since 2003 and even though a lot of people have said that it should be harsher, the FBI says that it has been great for them. With this law helping them, they have nabbed a lot of bad-guys. It's really aiding them in the fight against spam and cyber-crooks that use it (spam) to s...

12 September 2007
05:12 GMT

New, Better Way to Fight Spam!

Imagine spam as leaves from a tree. What we have been doing till now is tear each leaf apart one by one. Till we were done with 20 leaves, 3 new branches appeared. Wouldn't it just be easier to cut down the whole tree? Well... yes... and that's what is going to be the new trend in spam-fighting.Instead of t...

24 August 2007
06:54 GMT


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