Attacks by spammers and hackers are up When you see people glomming onto your email correspondence and comments here on NowPublic, you must act at once to 1) report it to the administrator, 2) report it to the...
The old cell phone number of Australian Free Style Silver Medalist Dale Begg-Smith now belongs to an East Vancouver woman who has been receiving a flood of text messages meant for Aussie mogul skier.Heather Burgess was supplied with the old cell phone number of...
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"New Kids on the Block had a bunch a hits, Chinese food makes me sick [...]." Sorry about the LFO reference but it seems NKOTB frontman Jordan Knight didn't have enough hits to stop him, or at least his Twitter...
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Sanford Wallace, a prolific Facebook spammer, has been ordered to pay Facebook $711 million. Of course, Sanford Wallace is broke, so that probably won't happen, but still, take note, all you douchebag spammers:...
created by Truemorist | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 809 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Some times I feel the world is full of Moran’s geared to just making money, their total respect for others is beyond belief. They think they can ride rough shot over others just to make a buck or two on...
Twitter users 'round the globe have been noticing the latest hot trend in Twitter spam: Spam profile images! Oh, how clever: embed a link in your profile pic instead of tweeting out a bunch of fugly spam. Nice.I had, like, five of them these Twitter profile spammers appearing...
"Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet" " San Francisco: Security researchers warned on Thursday of the increasing levels of viruses and spam using Michael Jackson's name to snare unsuspecting users. One e-mail carries the subject line "Remembering Michael Jackson" was...
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Facebook has been relatively clever with how it has allowed usage of the new usernames feature. According to their blog:Your Facebook Page must meet two requirements: it must have been live on Facebook prior to the May 31, 2009 cut-off date and have had a minimum 1,000 fans...
Oooh, sounds great. not only are spammers spamming Twitter, but they want to assimilate you, with come-ons like "get paid to follow people on Twitter!" Thanks, but no thanks. In fact, these auto-follow bots (Autofollowbots? Decepticons!) are responsible for degrading...
See, this is cool: 3D Captcha. I hate doing math and squinting at those squiggly letters, but, thanks to my being a human and not a robot, can tell the difference between a picture of a camel and a picture of a fork. Therein lies the genius of 3D Captcha. (Captcha= Completely...
PORNOGRAPHY and PHARMACUETICAL SPAM EPIDEMIC HITTING THE INTERNET. USERS ARE BEING LURED WITH PORNO AND ADVERTISEMENT FOR PHARMACUETICALS, THEN IF THEY HIT THE USER PROFILE ON THE FORUMS, AN EXE PROGRAM IS...
A judge in California on Monday ordered convicted spammer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace to stay away from Facebook. Wallace is accused of flooding Facebook users with unsolicited messages, which appear to...
created by Mary Richard | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 262 views | 26 recommendations | 5 comments
A report on BBC News Online confirms that all email sent to or from a UK ISP will be stored for 12 months. The body of the message will be discarded, but the sender's details along with the destination will be recorded by the state.
created by LoopZilla | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 146 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Ad Age has assembled an insightful and humorous list of things that keep afloat during bad times. Their list includes some surprises. "More layoffs and fewer bonuses lead to greater stress. And more stress...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 879 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
November 24th can turn into an online shopper’s “black Monday,” as researchers forecast that it might become the worst day of the year for malicious software attacks. This peak in computer attacks is...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 316 views | 15 recommendations | 4 comments