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Expect Irrevocable Robocalls and Texts With PayPal’s New Terms of Service
This Summer, PayPal is introducing new terms of service that allow the company to subject customers to compulsory robocalls and robotexts, and sell your details to third-party affiliates for the same rights. The terms, that take effect on 1st July, cannot be opted out of, and allow automated communications regarding…
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Twitter to Re-open Unrestricted Private Messaging
We all know that the internet isn’t always as nice as we’d like it to be and Twitter can be the perfect example of just that, with people not always being the kindest of folks to their fellow users. But now Twitter have now re-opened opt-in unrestricted private messaging for…
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Three Spammers Accused of Largest Data Breach in History
The US Department of Justice has charged three men with what could be the biggest data breach in the history of the internet. The three spammers are accused of stealing billions of e-mail addresses from the databases of e-mail service providers. Two of the men, Giang Hoang Vu and Viet Quoc Nguyen,…
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Instagram Spam Purge Jettisons Millions of Accounts
Since its popularity rocketed, photo-sharing platform Instagram has been plagued with spam accounts. To rectify the problem, Instagram staged a massive purge of users it deemed to be spammers, removing well over 20 million accounts. The purge, dubbed the “Instagram Rapture”, has had a huge impact on the top 100…
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Anti-Piracy Campaign Set to Begin in UK
Oh no! Another anti piracy campaign that will change nobody’s opinion on piracy. Seriously, The UK government is starting a campaign next year that will involve sending people emails warning them that what they are doing is illegal. Example: I download loads of films and the UK government notices this,…
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Gmail Add More Features To Fight Junkmail
Fed up of getting a constant stream of marketing mails, are you unable to find the unsubscribe link in the email, or maybe you just keep putting off removing your name from the mailing lists? Well don’t worry, it looks like Google have got a solution for Gmail users that…
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One Simple E-Mail Ended With Complete Worldwide Chaos Inside The BP Corporation
If you are an employee in a corporation, most notably a worldwide corporation, then you are most likely required to send out e-mails to different departments. That’s what happened at BP, where an employee wrote an e-mail to a Mr. “Shahid” where he mentioned that an employee by the name…
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Gmail Spams Other People’s E-Mail Accounts Now?
After the incident about the Google services going down today, TechChrunch and Gizmodo also found some interesting things about Google’s Gmail services. If you are to search for Gmail on Google, you will get a link like the one below, which will open up a new e-mail pre-filled with somebody’s…
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Facebook Sues “Justin Bieber Sex Tape” Fake Link Spammer
Fake links are nothing new on social media websites, but it is not every day you hear about the site going after the people who did it, then taking them to court over it. Most cases simply end up with the user account being banned like any other spam. However,…
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World’s Largest DDoS Attack Slowed Down the Internet
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming increasingly more common and visible these days, as tactics of political protest, of businesses getting one over on each other and so on. The New York Times is reporting that a fight between two Dutch companies has created the single largest DDoS…
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Cisco Report Shows “Good” Sites Have More Malware Than Porn Sites
When it comes to catching viruses, malware and adware on the internet “word of mouth” will tell you that porn websites, pharmaceutical sites and gambling sites are some of the most dangerous out there. Cisco’s latest 2013 annual security report challenges this commonly-held assumption about internet security. Cisco shows us…
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