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Facebook may get extremely yucky a lot more often in the future

Nov 18, 2011
A new type of scam fills Facebook feeds with images of porn, gore and violence.

Hotmail? Yes, Hotmail.

Oct 4, 2011
Microsoft announced that everyone's favorite first email program is coming out with new filtering options. In the era of daily deals and having to...

Facebook spammer turns himself in. Like!

Aug 8, 2011
This is the guy who allegedly hacked into 500,000 Facebook accounts. Sanford Wallace surrendered to the FBI in California. He developed a program...

Washington Post jobs site hacked

Jul 8, 2011
The paper says that an "unauthorized third party" hacked into its jobs database and absconded with 1.27 million user ids and email addresses. No...

Beware the Google + scam hoax

Jul 5, 2011
If you see an invite to the still-exclusive service in your inbox, proceed with caution.

Blekko releases Zorro to go after Spam-o

Jun 22, 2011
It's hard carving a niche for yourself in the search world. Everybody is so busy googling, it's hard to get them to notice you. But, Blekko has a...

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Spammers Ruin Everything, chapter 3,876,924: e-books

Jun 17, 2011
Amazon.com's Kindle e-book store lets you sell your own self-published books. That's very nice for authors who can't land a book deal or just want...

Google getting busted for drugs

May 23, 2011
The search giant has been warned repeatedly by state and federal authorities about running ads for illicit pharmacies. Google makes a ton of money...

Demand Media attacked by Panda?

Apr 18, 2011
Panda is the code name for Google's recent big algorithm change aimed at wiping search spam off its search results. The idea is that when you...