April 10, 2012 - Twitter recently filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Federal Court against five of the most aggressive spammers and spam tool providers. The defendants listed in the suit are TweetAttacks,TweetAdder, TweetBuddy, James Lucerno of justinlover.info, and Garland E. Harris (continue reading...) Read more
April 10, 2012 - A phishing campaign is spammed out, tricking users into handing over their Google login credentials to fraudsters. Read more
April 10, 2012 - SophosLabs is intercepting a large number of malicious emails that have been spammed out across the internet. Read more
April 8, 2012 - Twitter has taken its fight against on-line spam to the courthouse, filing suit last Thursday in the US District Court in San Francisco. Here's a summary, plus some tips for you to do your bit to help cut down Twitter spam. (continue reading...) Read more
April 5, 2012 - If you were hit by a bus, and passed on to whatever heaven might exist, would you care about your Facebook page? Probably not. But your loved ones more than likely would. Things like email, websites, and social media profiles (continue reading...) Read more
April 4, 2012 - Spammers are traversing through various social networks in order to find a new pool of users to dupe. We recently observed spam on social photo-sharing app Instagram. This campaign is similar to an earlier blog post which highlighted how (continue reading...) Read more
April 2, 2012 - Acai Berry diet spammers are hawking miracle diets on Pinterest. Don't be duped into clicking on the links! Read more
April 2, 2012 - Would you believe your luck if someone handed you money in the street for doing.. well.. nothing? Probably not. So why would you believe an email that arrives out of the blue, claiming to have a check attached? (continue reading...) Read more
April 2, 2012 - Avid users of Pinterest should be aware that a large spamrun involving the Twitter account “Pinterestdep” is underway right now, asking users to visit the Twitter page and associated URL. Here’s one spam example in case the Twitter staff (continue reading...) Read more
March 30, 2012 - If you're careless about what applications you allow to access your Twitter account, don't be surprised if you find the bad guys are spamming tweets out in your name without your permission. (continue reading...) Read more
March 29, 2012 - Are you one of the millions of devotees of the Draw Something game? Watch out! Scammers are trying to dupe you into clicking on their links. Read more
March 28, 2012 - A spammer, who claims to earn $1000 a day by automatically posting affiliate links onto Pinterest from thousands of bot accounts, has given an interview describing his operation. Read more
March 28, 2012 - Curious to know who's been checking you out on Facebook? Tempted to see who's visited your timeline? Put that click-happy finger away! Read more
March 27, 2012 - Things could have been much much worse.. Justin Bieber had his Twitter account briefly hacked, as mischief-makers posted up an offensive message. Read more
March 27, 2012 - A rogue application which claims to allow you to see who has viewed your Facebook profile is spreading between accounts on the popular social network. Read more
March 23, 2012 - Back in 2010, The Wall Street Journal was already warning us about app developers’ lack of transparency with regard to their intentions. “An examination of 101 popular smartphone “apps”—games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones—showed that 56 (continue reading...) Read more
March 22, 2012 - Have you received an email from the IRS saying that your tax refund appeal has been rejected? Watch out! Read more
March 21, 2012 - “Vishing” occurs when criminals cold-call victims and attempt to persuade them to divulge personal information over the phone. These scammers are generally after credit card numbers and personal identifying information, which can then be used to commit financial theft. Vishing (continue reading...) Read more
March 21, 2012 - Jenna-Louise Coleman is jumping onboard Doctor Who's TARDIS, and is already having her name abused by Twitter scammers. Read more
March 21, 2012 - Ever wondered why an email message was quarantined in your spam folder? Well, now Google's Gmail is going to tell you. Read more