Spam Tweets Make Up 10% of Twitter
While social media is a great tool for companies seeking information about their customers, it also contains a lot of noise and useless, irrelevant information. A new study has found …
Pushdo Spamming Botnet Makes a Comeback
Cybersecurity experts have found that computers in over 50 countries have been infected with an upgraded version of Pushdo, a spamming botnet which has been functioning since 2007 despite a …
Restricted Access for Spam Accounts on Steam
Valve, the company who runs the well-known digital distribution platform, Steam, has recently implemented a policy change targeting spammers. The new rules limit access to a number of features for …
Foreign Accent Email Spam Makes a Comeback
Spammers tend to use a combination of methods to get their messages past your email’s in-built spam filters. One tactic that was popular about a decade ago and which is …
3 Types of Phrases that Make Your Emails Look like Spam
One of the easiest ways in which spam filters determine which messages are legitimate is by searching for certain key words popular with spammers. If you write an email containing …
US Feds Shut Down Billion Email Spam Scam
The US Department of Justice has halted what they refer to as the “largest data breach of names and email addresses in the history of the Internet,” arresting two men …
How Spam Emails Lead to Successful Phishing Scams
A recent study by the University of Buffalo looked at the types of emails which were more likely to result in successful phishing scams. Researchers discovered that messages which were …
5 Tips to Avoid the Spam Folder
With spammers using more aggressive tactics to try and get through to inboxes worldwide, anti spam filters have had to upgrade their security features to provide a stronger barricade against …
How Email Spam Filters Work
Unwanted messages are more than just minor annoyances. They fill up a user’s inbox, potentially exposing them to malicious software, files and applications. Installing an anti spam filter can be …
Google Combats Website Spam
While the internet can be a very useful tool, sometimes it can come with hidden dangers. One of these threats, websites which trick users into downloading unwanted software, is currently …