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1 in 12.5 Million is Still a Killer Business Model for Spammers
Source:Mashable! I’ve often asked myself, “how do enough people possibly click on this awful piece of spam to make it profitable?” Apparently, “enough people” is an incredibly small numbe...read more
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HOW TO: Install a Facebook Trojan
Source:Mashable! Facebook is not immune, it seems, to the many security expolits that have hit MySpace users over recent years. A so-called “Facebook trojan” is making its way around t...read more
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Mollom Leaves Beta, Hits 10 Million Blocked Spams, Launches Paid Plans
Source:CenterNetworks
We initially reviewed spam prevention service Mollom back in April and I noted that it gave me back an hour a day because I didn't need to spend as much time picking out the g...read more
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ASCII Spam Is Coming, And I’m Not Happy
Source:Mashable! Is nothing sacred anymore? Is there no length to which spammers won’t go? They’ve taken over our e-mails and social networks, and now they want to take the oldschool ner...read more
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How to Despam Your iPhone Email
Source:Mashable! Are scenic photographs the path to increased search engine market share? That seems to be the thinking behind the new homepage that Microsoft Live Search’s just launched. The h...read more
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Knol Deathwatch Day 3: Splog Invasion
Source:Mashable! Yesterday, only two days in, the negative press and analysis surrounding Google Knol started to pile in, which we recapped to mixed opinion. Not surprisingly, those most directly af...read more
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Why Social Network Spam Matters
Source:Mashable! Last month’s news that RockYou had raised $1M from DCM in “interim funding” seemed a bit odd in light of some of the other huge financings we’ve seen of late...read more
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