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As the years pass, we often identify them with significant changes or events that occur of their span. Optimists often look for the most positive events over the year to attach to the label, The Year of…, realists however, take …

One of the things I do on a semi-regular basis is wade through all the  junk and garbage that accumulates in the various quarantine, spam, and junk mail folders spread across my company’s and my personal email systems, looking for …

Google+ has been the talk of the Web since it went into an exclusive beta test environment back on June 28, 2011. For the first part of the invite only phase, people were clamoring for invites. A search for Google+ …

A study by social media analysts, Impermium, has found that cybercriminals are selling fake and hijacked Facebook accounts for the bargain price of $15 each. Times are tough all over it seems – last year such accounts were going for over …

Facebook doesn’t usually make the news for being overly zealous when it comes to security and protecting its users. However, their anti-spam efforts seem to have managed to land them on the front page again in a negative light. Yet in …

Proud of his spamming techniques, Sanford “Spamford” Wallace proclaimed himself the Spam King. This arrogance about his business practices probably won’t win him any friends as he faces 11 new counts – six for electronic mail fraud, three for intentional …

Google+ has been growing by record numbers. In just three short weeks Google+ grew to over 20 million users. While that may not be a dent in the 700 million users Facebook claims, when you consider that it took Facebook …

Recent activity indicates a significant reduction in spam levels, but no one should find comfort in this news. Spammers are making it personal, a new report from Cisco suggests, and at fault may be the law enforcement community for taking …

Web security is full of clever names to tag the different threats that the everyday Internet user faces. The latest is an interesting attack known as tabnapping, or tab kidnapping.

In the most recent spam scam to assault Facebook, users are being greeted with a message advising them to ‘verify’ their account, seemingly a noble act of spam prevention and surely not spam itself, right? Not so fast.