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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 …

Most of us have come to recognize spam when it shows up in our inbox. To many people, the easiest way to determine if an email message can be trusted enough to warrant opening and reading it is to look …

URL shortening was made famous by Twitter’s 140 character limit. Instead of using up precious character space with long URLs like: http://www.allspammedup.com/2011/10/fighting-spam-and-going-green/, services like bit.ly, owl.ly or goo.gl could turn it into http://goo.gl/BdmMe. Not only did this make Twitter happy, but …

A recent tweet by Twitter’s own Chief Executive Officer, Dick Costolo, seems to indicate that the company is not only aware of the problems with spammy tweets, but that they are working on some new technology to address the issue. …

At least 30,000 people think so. President Obama’s Twitter account lost at least that many followers after going on a massive tweeting binge in an effort to drum up support for the debt ceiling talks. The account tweeted the Twitter handles …

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 …

A new spam campaign is exploiting Twitter in an effort to spread fake anti-virus software hawk shady prescription drugs and lead recipients to phishing sites. It began last week and appear to still be going strong. The emails look like …

The security of social networks was thrust into the spotlight yet again this week with the successful hack of the Twitter Grader application run by Hubspot, a maker of social media and internet marketing tools. The Twitter Grader application uses …

British ISPs have reacted strongly to the suggestion of Trend Micro CTO David Rand that the ISPs should actively combat the problem of spam on the internet. Rand’s suggestion is the blocking of TCP port 25 (the port used for …

Business Week reports that a study by researchers in New York reveals that as many as one in five young, overweight people have been a victim of email spam. The study revealed some interesting statistics: 88% of overweight individuals reported …