WhitePages has some big plans for integrating Mr. Number into its 50-million-unique-visitors-per-month website -- plans that should help you avoid spam calls.
Google wants to make Glass as great as possible -- but it's got to kill search spam first.
According to two Italian security researchers, there's a thriving market for fake Twitter accounts, with more than two dozen services offering to sell accounts for prices averaging $18 per 1,000.
Want to send Mark Zuckerberg a message via the social network he created? That could cost you $100 ... with no guarantee Zuckerberg will ever see it.
Security researchers at Sophos released their Security Threats in 2013 report, looking at the most at risk countries for malware.
According to a Silicon Valley-based startup, there is a "big data solution" for one of the Internet's most common afflictions.
"Disavow links" sounds like a D&D spell, but it's actually a way for search engines and webmasters to seek out and destroy spam sites.
Trolls are part of online life, but this new CAPTCHA pre-screens your commenters or other contacts for empathy as well as basic humanity.
Dropbox may be having yet another bad security day.
Dropbox users are complaining on the forums that email addresses they’ve used only for cloud storage and sharing service are getting spam … which leads them to believe that Dropbox has …
You may have received an e-mail from Delta Airlines today confirming an itinerary you never booked. The company is reporting a phishing incident, leaving customer service lines clogged.
VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall received one of these faked itineraries, and he was …
Think twice before you start throwing shade on Facebook, ladies and gentlemen; you’re being watched, especially when it comes to bullying, threats, insults, and spam. In fact, you might even attract the attention of law enforcement.
Some time ago, Facebook …
CAPTCHAs, or those jumbled words you have to enter to prove you’re a human on websites, suck. They detract from a website’s flow, and as security researchers at Imperva have found, they’re actually easily overcome by spammers. But some CAPTCHA …
We’ve known for a while that spam was jumping on the Pinterest train. Now, security software service McAfee is sending out an official warning to keep an eye out for fraudulent pins.
According to McAfee, hackers have created entire toolkits …
If you’re sick of Twitter spam, join the club — a club that now includes Twitter, which is taking spammers to court.
Thursday morning, the social media company filed a lawsuit against some of the biggest, baddest perpetrators of Twitter …
There’s no doubt that social media will play an important role in the 2012 elections, just as it did in both 2008 and 2010. But as its influence grows, so do the amount of spammers using social channels to unethically …
Tech heavyweights are coming together to stand behind DMARC, a new system announced today that could block phishing emails before they ever reach your inbox.
“We’ve been active in the leadership of the DMARC group for almost two years, and …
Facebook has teamed up with the Washington state Attorney General to put real resources toward getting rid of spam on the social network — starting with a lawsuit.
“Security is an arms race, and that’s why Facebook is committed to …
One of the most reviled and well-known names in the spamming world, so-called “Spam King” Sanford Wallace, has surrendered to FBI agents for hacking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages.
Facebook was previously awarded $711 million in …
410 Labs, maker of a Twitter-like email app called Shortmail that limits email messages to 500 characters or less, announced today that it has raised $750,000 from super-angel Dave McClure’s 500 Startups seed funding firm and others.
The messages sent …
Many Google+ users saw a massive amount of notification email messages from the service this afternoon, and now Google’s head of social, Vic Gundotra, has an explanation.
“For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service …
