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Spam techniques now 'triple threat'
News Spammers are combining their circumvention techniques to increase the efficacy of attacks, according to security company Symantec.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security implementation/standards, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Domain, Spam, Spammer, social networking, Symantec Corp.
Spammers tap Google's Picasa, Adobe Flash
News New techniques such as using images hosted by Picasa Web Albums and Flash-based site redirection showed up in August, new security report shows.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security Management, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Security, Google Inc., Google Picasa, Spammer, Mark Sunner
YouTube hijacked for Storm worm spam
News Spammers are exploiting YouTube's "Invite your Friends" facility to send spam containing a Storm Trojan from the video sharing site.
Facebook shuts down malicious fake profiles
News AVG researcher suspects malicious profiles were created automatically by bypassing the Captcha function, but a Facebook spokesman disagrees.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Network security, Google Inc., home video, Authentication and encryption, Web Browser, antivirus, credit card information, Facebook, identity fraud
Google acquires ReCaptcha as book-scanning aid
News Google's massive book-scanning project could produce more accurate results with ReCaptcha, a twist on the captcha-style log-in screens found on many Web sites.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data Management, Scanner, Bot, computer science, font, Carnegie-Mellon University, CAPTCHA, blog
Jackson death prompts malware alert at Google
News Spike in searches related to Michael Jackson was so "volcanic" that it triggered an antimalware mechanism at Google, company says.
Tags: Web services, App servers, Crisis communications, Networking technology, Malware, Google Inc., computer, Crisis communications, spyware, computer virus
Facebook retools password resets, addresses app
News In response to concerns, social network changes the way it resets passwords and asks the developer of Photo Stalker to inform users that it doesn't violate privacy guidelines.
Tags: Data security, E-mail Address, Password, photograph, e-mail, Facebook, CAPTCHA, CNET Networks Inc., Web Site, Web
Google Sites exploited to bypass spam filters
News Junk e-mailers are using Google Sites to create Web pages that can help spam get around corporate filters, according to MessageLabs.
Tags: Security, Spam and phishing, MessageLabs Ltd., Google Inc., Spam, Mark Sunner, Anti-spam, CAPTCHA, Google Page Creator, malicious web site
Gmail falls prey to spam bots
News Spammers are able to fool Google's spam-prevention system into thinking they are humans.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Security
Spammers breach Yahoo, Hotmail protection with free porn
Insight Captcha, the technology which thwarts junk e-mailers from automatically setting up free e-mail accounts in Hotmail and Yahoo to do spamming, has been foiled--through the use of porn sites.
Porn gets spammers past Hotmail, Yahoo barriers
News Junk e-mailers set up porn sites and use visitors to bypass defenses used by Hotmail and Yahoo to stop bot software from automatically opening e-mail accounts.
New tool screens spam, digitizes books
News The ReCaptcha service turns annoying spam-avoidance chores into a productive project to digitize books.
Tags: Spam filtering
Hotlan Trojan defeats captcha
News Anti-virus vendor BitDefender believes that a new Trojan is able to circumvent the 'captcha' verification process in Hotmail and Yahoo mail to create spamming accounts.
Tags: Spam filtering, Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms
Facebook worm feeds off Google's reputation
News New worm crawling Facebook accounts leads victims to "videos" on Google Reader and Google Picasa pages that in turn link to malicious server sites.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Web 2.0, Security, Phishing, Fortinet Inc., Malware, Google Inc., Worm, Video, Computer
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