Google is believed to have pulled nearly 60,000 apps from the Play Store in February, with a huge cull of low quality and policy-infringing software presumably designed to clean things up a little in preparation this week's new Android app launch. Read More >>
Featured comment by dclampuk:
"You can pick up the APK from http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/04/09/download-completely-redesigned-latest-google-play-store-4-0-25/#download" More »
Ofcom's looking into ways of stopping controversial mid-contract mobile price rises, with one option being to separate charges the networks are responsible for from ones outside of their control. This, says Vodafone, could mean non-stop SMS spam every time a sex chat line ups its fees. Read More >>
Reports are floating around the internet that people are getting spammed to email addresses they solely use for Dropbox, meaning the only way someone could get said email address is from Dropbox. The last time that happened Dropbox got hacked. Are you getting spammed to your Dropbox-associated email? Read More >>
Featured comment by locust76:
"I recently got a spam mail at my dropbox email account (dropbox@mydomain.com, where mydomain.com is, y'know, my domain)
Same thing happened to my u..." More »
Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and promptly tweeted the news out to her 66,000 followers: Hurray, I am so super-duper popular on LinkedIn. My life now has meaning. Read More >>
The Economist has a chart from Kaspersky Lab, a security firm, that shows that spam mail is on a decline. Supposedly, it's a combination of spam filters actually working, the authentication of senders and more police crackdowns on Nigerian princes. In fact, in the past year, junk mail has declined from around 80 per cent to 67 per cent. Do you guys agree with this study? Are you noticing less spam in your inboxes? Read More >>
Bogomil Shopov, a Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist, bought 1.1 million Facebook names, user IDs and e-mails for the ridiculously low price of $5 (around £3). Yes, for a price of a Subway footlong, Shopov was able to get his hands on your personal data from Facebook. What a deal! Read More >>
Featured comment by ollypercival:
"Yup, sure do, but if they were enough to stop bots then we wouldn't need the semantic responses concept.
The first paragraph stated that squiggly l..." More »
We all hate spam. But we figure it must be worth it to someone since there's so damn much of it. But... apparently not. A new paper from the Journal of Economic Perspectives estimates it brings in a total of £130 million in revenue worldwide per year. And then the rest of us spend £13 billion cleaning it up. Ugh. Read More >>
Featured comment by lancsDavid:
"yeh, about time we (the non-functioning collective) spent part of that 13 billion kicking serious amounts of spammer ass" More »
Long-running piracy portal Demonoid was taken out by a DDoS attack last week, with the site now back online in some form -- but seemingly hacked and serving up malware-ridden adverts to some. Read More >>
Salutations, My Dearest One: I am writing to you this blog post with joy and happy feelings in my heart, bringing news that will be of great interest and benefit to you. Oh, beloved, there is indeed a special reason for why I have chosen to contact you in this moment of your day, I write to you now because of the urgency of our situation: the world's third-largest spam botnet was knocked offline, today—for good.Read More >>
Featured comment by EzenceII:
"That was added after my post ;]
Bogus because the internet at large doesn't actively want botnets? I've interpreted that to mean people won't suppo..." More »
Reports of an Android botnet have been flying around from both Microsoft and Sophos, but it looks like someone might be attempting to frame Android using spoofed email signatures. Has Microsoft, Apple or someone else craving the downfall of Android gone a little bit too far? Read More >>
Reddit has announced, in a new subreddit called r/BannedDomains, that it is banning a swathe of big-name websites — including The Atlantic and Businessweek — in a bid to limit spam and abuse. Read More >>
Featured comment by smarklew:
"The subreddit /r/banneddomains was started by normal users to figure out what was banned and what wasn't. The list of banned domains hasn't been relea..." More »
Adscend Media is the jerk ad agency responsible for many of the "OMG LOL THIS VIDEO IS SO GOOD JUSTIN BEIBER" links on Facebook that, when clicked, spam the same crap link to your friends. It has just been fined £62,000 by a Washington court for spamming and scamming Facebook users. Read More >>
India is now responsible for 9.3 per cent of the world's spam — up from 8 per cent last year — overtaking the US for the first time, and meaning that it now accounts for more of the email trash than any other country. Read More >>
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