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Twitter wants to solve the SPAM problem and phishing attacks that have been rocking the twitter-verse in the recent months. Accordingly, it has an announcement on its official blog – Twitter, has introduced a new feature to encounter malicious junk messages or links. To end these attacks, the new service that will try to “detect, intercept and prevent the spread of spam or phishing links. [...]

Twitter today announced that it would fix the followers count issue and is also kicking some spammers’ off twitter… “As a consequence of this, follower counts will drop for some people. In particular, those with large followings may see significant changes as we correct for spam accounts and data inconsistencies. No legitimate followings should be affected—we’re just cleaning up [...]

Some people misused Michael jacksons death for spreading Virus and Malwares!! Computer security firm Sophos issued a warning about an internet virus transmitted from a mass email claiming to contain secret songs and photos of Michael Jackson. The email comes with the subject “Remembering Michael Jackson” and is sent from “sarah@michaeljackson.com”, Sophos said. It tells recipients that an [...]

DO NOT reply to those messages which reads like “You won 850000$, to claim the prize send an email to xxxxx@gmail.com.” – This basically is the international lottery scam witnessing a new spin: Mobile phones are now being used as baits by fraudsters to net victims. Earlier, they used to send e-mails telling people to deposit money to claim big lottery prizes. Now, these emails have been [...]

Wow…. I got so much spam in my inbox Today I noticed that I’d been getting so much spam in my inbox…. I wonder why? But thanks to Gmail’s spam filters they directly goto my spam box … Gmail uses advanced spam prevention techniques to fight spam… To check out the a quick video on how it works, click here Here are some tips to prevent spam, if you don’t use [...]