Just how many people respond to spam
There is still one thing that puzzles the tech world when it comes to spammers and that is why do they keep doing it, the motive was always to make money, but surely the spammers are still not making any cash.
Well you only have to check your inbox to see that the spammers are still [...]
Online ID mistakes
For some people going online is a new experience, which means that all of the security scares that have affected many internet users over the years have gone unnoticed by them. This is why there are so many people being caught out by the scammers.
The surprising thing is that many of these people are being [...]
The Spam experiment
McAfee the computer security firm have been conducting an experiment, firstly they needed fifty volunteers who would be given a free computer and the user were to see how much spam they received, but to make it worse they had to reply to the spam messages to see what would happen.
Although the results are due [...]
Researchers looking for an 11 year old email
Some strange research is being carried out by a research team at the Cornell University in the US, they are looking into the emails of the past, and there is one particular email which they are interested in and would like to ask internet users if they have a copy of a certain email.
Problem is, [...]
Gmail the number one spam resource
The problem with email is spam, well actually its spammers. But with all of security features that have been installed on our computers and what the email hosting companies have put into their systems, why does spam keep getting through?
It is a question of where it comes from. Gmail as it comes from Google is [...]
SPAM move into SMS
SMS has become a rival for the email message in the amount of use that it gets, but unlike email the text message has managed to steer clear of the huge amount of spam that flood into the inboxes of virtually every email address in the entire world! Causing problems for some users who spend [...]
February 1, 2008The Times is a spammer
It seems that News Corp could be making some news of its own, with The Sun and The Times being the headline news, as both of these established titles have been implicated in a spamming scam.
By employing a search engine management company both these titles entrusted their reputations in a hope that they would be [...]
Yahoo guilty of Copyright infringements
It seems that Yahoo China is in breach of some copyright laws, which involve the Yahoo China music search and concerns deep linking to sites that offer pirated music.
The Yahoo China is not wholly owned by Yahoo itself, but still the site has been reported to the authorities in China and even a court in [...]
Stupid filter on its way
It’s about time that something like this came along, working on the same principles as the Spam filters use, this piece of open source brilliance will detect any stupidness that appears on a web page and will grade it to certain degrees.
Exactly what the criteria is for stupid writing is not really known, it will [...]
Are Spammers giving up?
The Chief of Spam at Google thinks so, and the reason that he gives is, that the fight against Spam is getting better and the anti Spam precautions are catching more Spam before it gets through.
Of course naturally Google are not giving away any of the figures, but they are only talking about their own [...]