Business Impact Spam Trail Leads to China’s Three Largest Banks A researcher made 300 purchases of fake luxury goods online and found that 97 percent were handled by China’s largest three banks. by Tom Simonite 2016-01-29T15:17:00-05:00
Connectivity Buying 120,000 Twitter Accounts Reveals New Way to Block Spam Researchers spent $5,000 buying Twitter accounts from spammers in an attempt to learn how to outwit them. by Tom Simonite 2013-08-19T16:50:00-04:00
Americans Use Spam for Cheaper Prescription Drugs Americans are far more likely than people in other countries to turn to spam-advertised pharmacies to treat serious ailments. by Brian Krebs 2011-07-11T18:19:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines Most Malware Tied to 'Pay-Per-Install' Market A shadowy industry lets spammers and other cybercriminals pay their way into your computer. by Brian Krebs 2011-06-09T00:00:00-04:00
Anatomy of a Spam Viagra Purchase A sample of spam transactions finds most pass through just three banks, study finds. by David Talbot 2011-05-20T00:00:00-04:00
Twitter is in Denial About its Massive Spam Problem Twitter doesn’t seem to have enough incentive to eliminate auto-spawned accounts – and that’s a larger problem than most of us realize by Christopher Mims 2011-04-26T00:00:00-04:00
Social Search, without a Social Network Google’s new +1 button lets friends tune each other’s search results, but so far the company has few connections to draw on. by Tom Simonite 2011-04-01T00:00:00-04:00
Intelligent Machines The Unexpected Ubiquity of Spam Detection Algorithms ‘Fuzzy hashing’ was invented to flag spam emails, but has found application in everything from malware detection to genome sequence alignment by Christopher Mims 2011-03-28T00:00:00-04:00
Google's Great Spam Quest The search engine wants to weed out sites that create low quality articles simply as a way of luring people to online ads. by Tom Simonite 2011-02-02T00:00:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines Raising a Botnet in Captivity Researchers created their own, imprisoned, network of zombie computers to better learn how to take down those at large on the Internet. by Tom Simonite 2010-12-17T00:00:00-05:00
