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YouTube Update to Crack Down on Spam Comments & Account Impersonators
For several years now, YouTube has had a pretty big problem when it has come to spam. No, I’m not necessarily talking about misleading videos, but more the fact that for many channels (both big and small), comment sections can sometimes get absolutely flooded by ‘people’ making posts you know…
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Spam Phone Calls Have Increased 300% Worldwide
Spam Phone Calls Your phone rings and upon inspection, you are met with the dreaded ‘Unknown caller’. What do you do? You can’t not answer it as it might be something important. On the other hand, you know full well that it’s probably going to be a call from someone trying…
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Facebook Removes 500 Political Pages Ahead Of US Mid-Terms
Facebook Removes 800 Political Pages Ahead Of US Mid-Terms Next month will see the mid-term elections in the US. For those unaware, these are elections that are held half-way through a presidential term. As such, the political climate is starting to heat up again. Following much criticism of their inadvertent…
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YouTube Plan To Get Rid of In-Video Pop Up Links
YouTube plans to stop mid-video pop-up links based on it feeling more like spam advertising Sometimes it’s nice to have a random meander on YouTube. There is, however, a very annoying factor, and it’s not the unskippable videos. It’s those links that periodically pop up. The ones intended by the…
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IBM Says The State of Network Security is Abysmal
The state of online security is at a new low according to IBM Security’s 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Cyber criminals are starting to grab unstructured data, spam has rebloomed 400%, and ransomware has gone nuts too. With the rise in pure numbers of available connected devices along with…
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Anti-Telemarketing Bot Strikes Back at Phone Scammers
Telemarketing scams such as the fake IRS phone scam and fake Windows Tech Support phone scam cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars last year and it often targets vulnerable citizens such as the elderly and new immigrants. There are several examples on YouTube of those trying to fight back…
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Predictable Passwords Remain Popular Despite Increased Security Breaches
Despite the increase of publicized data breaches and hacking, security researchers have found that most people’s online security habits remain relatively unchanged including their choice of passwords to access online services. Keeper Security has analyzed over 10 million passwords that have become public from these data breaches within 2016 alone…
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PewDiePie to Delete YouTube Channel over Sabotage Claims
Squeaky video game noisemaker Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, more commonly known as PewDiePie, is set to quit YouTube after accusing the video-sharing site of sabotaging his popular channel. In a paranoid whinge, PewDiePie claims that YouTube is deliberately leeching subscribers from his channel in order to elevate the position of…
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Spammer Luring Internet Users to Fake Google Domain
A fake Google URL has been fooling people into visiting malicious domains by proliferating pro-Donald Trump spam. The domain, ɢoogle.com, could, at a glance, look like a genuine Google address, but instead of a capital ‘G’ it begins with a similar-looking Unicode character. The site was discovered by The Next…
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Spam King Sentenced to Two-and-a-Half Years in Prison
Self-proclaimed “Spam King” Sanford Wallace has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and paying $310,628.55 in restitution after being found guilty of sending millions of spam messages to Facebook users and for breaching a court order not to access Facebook. Between 2008 and 2009, 47-year-old Wallace, of Las Vegas,…
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Text Spamming Lands Yahoo in Class Action Lawsuit
In an unexpected declaration from a Chicago federal judge on Monday, web giant Yahoo have found themselves faced with a class action lawsuit against them on the grounds of the sending of a large volume of unsolicited text messages to users of the Sprint Corp telephone company. Yahoo was found…
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Virgin Media Spam Filter is Blocking Legitimate E-Mails
Not so long ago, Google stopped providing their e-mail service to ISPs which forced them to look elsewhere for an alternative. As a result, Virgin Media’s new e-mail platform doesn’t have a sophisticated and accurate e-mail filtering service which resulted in many genuine messages being undelivered. Many customers have already let…
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FCC To Post List Of Robo Callers
A thousand a day may seem like an exaggeration but when you pick up the phone to the robotic voice saying you’ve just won a great deal or that they are offering you the same deal you hanged up on five minutes ago, Robo callers and telemarketers can prove a…
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Gmail Now Integrates Useful ‘Block’ Button
Gmail has finally implemented a long-overdue feature which allows you to block “disruptive” senders and automatically divert their message into a spam folder. The tool was launched yesterday for Web users and should arrive on Android devices a few days later. Google also announced an ‘unsubscribe’ button to opt out…
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Spam E-Mails Drop to a 12 Year Low
Security specialist Symantec have conducted an extensive research programme into the amount of spam plaguing email inboxes. The results are fascinating and thorough scans reported less than 50% of received emails were junk, the lowest amount in the last 12 years. In June, 49.7% of emails contained spam content and continued the…
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