Archive for the 'SPAM' Category

The Coca Cola company has a web page that lists various rumors flying around the internet using the Coca Cola name to get people to divulge personal data or void their participation in the Do Not Call Registry. Some of these fly around the internet as job offers, as “paid for a survey” offers, etc.
Here’s [...]

James Jones’ blog tuned me in to this amazing blog entry from, of all places, the Washington Post. It’s how one of their writers – Brian Krebs – found a site designed to look exactly like ebay’s login page so they can steal all your personal information.
Oddly enough, he even dug up a message on [...]

The Scotsman reports that Google will warn it’s users if links in its search results will expose the user to potential spyware or scumare that will clog up their computer.
Customers who click on “dangerous keywords” such as “free screensavers”, “Download Yahoo messenger” or “Bearshare” will initially see a simple alert, with warnings becoming more detailed [...]

It’s hard to believe how many spam attacks even a little blog like this gets.
A few months ago Akismet was installed to automatically intercept spam comments and it’s intercepted 16351 comment spams in that time which otherwise would have to be deleted by hand.
If you have blog, you know that the big comment spammers [...]