Tag Archives: Google

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 …

All of us have stumbled across a blog at one time or another that makes little to no effort to control spam in their comment section. Maybe they think it makes their blog look popular to have hundreds of comments, …

A new spam campaign has been detected and it’s using Google Docs as part of its scheme. That spammers are exploiting Google Docs is nothing new, but in the past, they spammed by using the share feature to send spam …

Call it a prime example of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” or perhaps “anti-spam makes strange bedfellows” or even just simply competitors coming together for the greater good. Call it anything you want, it’s a good idea …

Spam; one of the few four letter words that is still considered unacceptable anywhere. Whether it arrives in the form of a junk email advertising for prescription drugs or a shared post in Google+, spam is one of the most …

We’ve all seen them before, those annoying combinations of letters and numbers that you have to type before sending a form or registering for a website. That’s right, we are talking about CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is …

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+ …

If you are a regular AllSpammedUp reader than you should know by now that there are many different types of spam. As companies and individuals apply better solutions to keep junk emails at bay, the rogue marketers who are desperate to …

Gmail users continue to be pummeled by a Chinese spear phishing attack. Google says the attack began in June and targeted high ranking U.S. and South Korean government officials as well as military officials, journalists and dissidents. The attack attempts to …

In the good ol’ days, our most worrisome concerns when it came to technology were Operating Systems that didn’t do much: fiddling with Winsock while trying to make it work with insipid browsers, popups, Trojans, and yes, even praying that …