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 | As a three times winner of the IT Security Journalist of the Year award in the UK, I am used to writing about all kinds of scams. Whilst most of them try and weasel their way into the bank accounts of the victim through purely online means, increasingly the bad …  |
 | I'm trying to think of better ways to fight spam than having a captcha that a user needs to fill in. I've considered emailing a confirmation link to the user that they need to click in order to send the message they filled out in the form, but with Google … |
| | I am creating a website although during a trial run with a couple of friends they uncovered a bit of a major issue.... the ability to spam. I have added a hidden box e.t.c. to attempt to prevent bots from spamming but my friends where able to post twenty messages … |
| | Hi, Something that is interesting for webmasters, and SEO. Google announced a new algorithm change to reduce the ranking of 'perceived' spammers. http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-step-to-reward-high-quality.html This latest update appears to target keyword stuffing (lists of keywords) and article spinning. This will reduce the rank of the website with spam keywords in their … |
 | Just as the title asks ... can selenium be used to automate forum spamming? If so, what are some techniques to combat that?  |
| | Probably the most common Olympic Games 2012 scam is that of unofficial ticket sales. No great surprise there, but the fact that Google appears to be in on the act might come as a shock to many. So what, exactly, is going on? [ATTACH=RIGHT]23779[/ATTACH]A little known law in the UK …  |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]22459[/ATTACH]Just how desperately are you looking for love? Unfortunately, for some the answer is all too often all too desperately; to the point where common sense leaps out of the window and is quickly followed by the bank balance. According to new research by the University of Leicester in the …  |
| | Using newly registered domains with a very short lifespan to host malware websites is so last year. It would appear that these days such things are far more likely to be hosted on much older compromised web sites instead. Could this be down to a decline in domain tasting? The … |
| | Anyone who uses Twitter, and has at some point posted a link to something interesting, will have almost certainly used a URL-shortening service such as bit.ly for example. Now the spammers are exploiting the popularity of such link-reduction services by establishing their own fake URL-shortening services in order to redirect … |
| | Facebook users have been making a lot of use of the new 'like' feature which allows users to link to webpages that they, well, like funnily enough. Not so funny when Facebook users are claiming to like a site called "101 Hottest Women in the World" which features an image … |
| | [ATTACH=RIGHT]22256[/ATTACH]England just scraped to a hard fought win against a physical and enthusiastic Argentina side in their opening match of the 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign in New Zealand. But while sports fans the world over get excited about how their country is performing in the initial pool group matches, …  |
| | iam building a training set for spam filtering using java,training set data is given as words in text files in one folder,but im unable to debug whats going wrong in java collections [CODE]/* *folder part 1 conatins various text files having name format * **spmsg***.txt and ***legit***.txt e.g 11927legit569.txt ,106127spmsgc26 … |
| | Hello guys, I am using php mail form where visitors contact with the registered site members. Searching for a solution to avoid unwanted spam messages. Is there a way to put in code which deny sending messages from custom mail ids? Thanks in advance. Using this post to great thank … |
 | Hi Friends, I am having one contact-us php script. Here i have used php mail function to send email to admin. Even-though i have also used captcha coding, admin is still continuously getting spam (dummy texts) contact us emails. Actually I am not sure how spammers do such activity. If … |
 | Hi, I'm normally over on the PHP board but this one is definitely a javascript issue. The thread title doesn't quite cover my issue, so I'll try to explain a little further. I built a website for a client who tells me that when he hovers over a word on … |
 | Dear All, Please Help me, An E-mail was automatically sent to all contacts that were added in my accounts, That e-mail contain a malicious link inside it. I also received this e-mail on my yahoo account because my yahoo ID was also added in contacts of my AOL id, I …  |
| | I am trying to set up a text message newsletter on my website. The basics of it are someone submits their number and I can go in and send out a message to a list of the numbers. I want to know the best method of going about this. I … |
| | Hi, I need some help with this because it's driving my friends crazy. My Yahoo email account was hacked by this spammer and I can't get rid of the virus by using Kaspersky anti-virus, running the full scan. The trojan keeps using my email address to spam my friends with …  |
 | [B]What's up?[/B] We've been having a big problem with Russian spammer for the last few days. You may have seen some posts they made with mainly porn and/or drug-links in them. We're currently struggling to keep up with the enormous amount of spam being posted, so I thought I'd ask …  |
| | I would like to ask is it beneficial having a lot of comments from the same website with a great ranking in alexa(400,00) but different IP address and different email address? |
| | Feast or famine (probably famine); 2009 should be another interesting year for the tech sector. After all, any industry that can provide sexual performance drugs (Viagra) for the CIA to give to Afghan warlords is always going to find room on the front pages of every news outlet in the … |
| | Hi, !! I have installed a new comment platform [B]Intense Debate[/B] in one of my blog and I don't really understand why people are not using platform for comment in my blog. However I'm still able to switch comment to the Wordpress platform(Comment Luv) so every time I need to …  |
| | I know you can't believe everything you read, especially if it's classified as an Advertisement. While surfing the Web two days ago, I found an advertisement stating, "Death to the PC" I believe I was at a MSN Website. It also stated two major companies behind it that I don't … |
| | Anybody here a fan of Chuck? I'm a pretty big fan - behind at the moment, but I've seen every episode except the last two. Giving our geeky hero superpowers was a risky move on the show's part, but it is still entertaining so far. I also liked his third …  |
| | Most spam continues to be drugs related, yet it is aimed at workers in the automotive industry. The United States, traditionally king of malware infected email, has dropped like a lead balloon to be overtaken by the UK. And workers prefer to download stuff on the move and get their …  |
| | hi, I need database for US email address. |
| | Warnings have been issued today not to complete a customer satisfaction survey that appears to come from McDonald's and promises cash for your answers. A bit like fast food itself, something that looks appetising and promises a quick fix is often not actually that good for you. [attach]17019[/attach]IT security and … |
| | It's not the first time that Johnny Depp has died according to the Internet, but this time he is not alone. According to an ongoing online campaign, celebrities including Beyonce, Bon Jovi, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz and David Beckham have all been killed in tragic circumstances. Perhaps surprisingly [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/thread306364.html"]Lady Gaga … |
| | Hello, Bandwidth on one of our sites was severely messed with on the 28th of this month. The cpanel only tracks daily access logs and didnt archive them(it does now), using aw stats I found our bot traffic to be as follows: Googlebot 145686+43 7.47 GB 28 Jul 2010 - … |
| | The 48,727 [URL="http://twitter.com/nasa_astronauts"]followers of the NASA Astronaut account on Twitter[/URL] expect to hear about updates on astronaut activity and get some personal insight from the astronauts themselves. They probably were not expecting to be bombarded by spacemen offering to sell them plasma and LCD flat-screen TVs at bargain prices however. … |
| | Viral videos are usually a great laugh, which is why they spread so quickly and the reason they get called viral in the first place. But the laughter soon stops when the bad guys use the lure of a viral video to launch a clickjacking attack. [attach]15852[/attach]Security researchers at Sophos … |
| | Stand up if you like paying your income tax. To all of you who have remained seated, which I will assume is indeed all of you, I have some more bad news: the bogus tax collectors want your money as well, and now they have botnets helping them. [attach]15770[/attach]According to … |
| | New [URL="http://www.getsafeonline.org"]research carried out on behalf of Get Safe Online[/URL], a national Internet security awareness initiative backed by the UK Government and the Serious Organised Crime Agency, has revealed that 30 percent of Internet users are putting themselves at risk when they book a holiday online. [attach]15742[/attach]Get Safe Online and … |
| | If you get an email purporting to come from Twitter suggesting that you have forgotten your password, even though you know exactly what it is, you will not be alone. It would appear that around 55,000 people have already received these fake notifications which, as if you haven't guessed, are … |
 | I have some 'interesting' medical problems - someone told me to try homeopathy, that would cure me. Homeopathy is one of the worst scams with the most bizarre process I have ever run across (even more ridiculous than scientology): take a healthy adult and give them increasing doses of a …  |
| | Rather amazingly, just one crime syndicate stands accused of being responsible for some two thirds of all detected phishing attacks carried out during the last six months of 2009. The so-called Avalanche gang, according to a new report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), used highly sophisticated malware to target … |
| | Hello, I would like to know which are the good free ways to make money online. Thanks  |
| | Who wants some forged educational documents that will help you get a job in some foreign country? The answer, it would seem, is lots and lots of people. At least that would explain why spam advertising fake diplomas has topped the list of junk mail subject matter for China, South …  |
| | According to new figures, published today by [URL="http://www.sophos.com"]Sophos[/URL], something strange has happened in the world of spam: China has dropped out of the list of the world's worst spam relaying countries for the first time ever. The Sophos 'Dirty Dozen Spammers' list has become something of a staple diet for … |
| | The latest MessageLabs spam index reveals that relative to its market share, any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine. But what are the facts behind those headline grabbing numbers and can Windows really get off the hook that easily? … |
| | While, for the average end user, spam has become less of a problem over recent years as spam filters get better at what they do and simply remove much of it from sight, that doesn't mean that spam volumes are actually reducing. In fact, the opposite is true and the … |
| | Hello guys, I have a query my brother uses hotmail (email primarily). Unfortunately in recent weeks he hasn’t been able to send any email via his hotmail. When he clicks to send new messages below appears: [COLOR="Red"][B]Festive Offers May the light of the holiday season shine brightly in your heart … |
| | According to the latest State of Spam and Phishing [URL="http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/other_resources/b-state_of_spam_and_phishing_report_02-2010.en-us.pdf"]report[/URL] from Symantec, a truly astonishing 92% of all adult phishing scams are being conducted across social networking sites. This coincides with a newly identified trend of adult oriented phishing whereby users are being tempted to enter personal credentials in exchange …  |
| | Google, the almighty, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story245746.html"]non-eco-friendly search engine[/URL] released [URL="http://www.google.com/buzz"]Google Buzz[/URL], a new type of social network this Tuesday. When I read an article on [URL="ttp://mashable.com/2010/02/11/google-buzz-9-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+(Mashable)"]mashable.com [/URL]saying that Google claims that there has been 9 million posts and comments since Tuesdays launch, I found it impossible to believe, so I went and … |
| | Websense Security Labs has [URL="http://community.websense.com/blogs/websense-features/archive/2010/02/01/websense-security-labs-report-state-of-internet-security-q3-q4-2009.aspx"]published[/URL] its bi-annual State of Internet Security report and, as usual, it makes for pretty interesting if somewhat scary reading. Covering the last six months of 2009, the report is based upon the findings of the ThreatSeeker Network which is used to discover, classify and monitor …  |
 | First let's get something out of the way - I love the iPad. Every other blogger has shared their opinion so for me it's the eReader that does about ten times as much for only 150 per cent of the price. It's also the first games platform that's going to … |
| | I would like to think that anyone watching, reading or listening to news reports of the unfolding tragedy that is post-earthquake Haiti could not fail to be moved first to tears and then prompted to want to do something. Most people have responded by asking themselves 'what can I do …  |
 | Is it possible to flag a Personal Message as Spam? I received two identical messages from a banned member today but couldn't find a way to report it. |
| | Thought that 2009 was [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/post975935.html"]the year that botnets died[/URL], well think again Batman, it was actually the year they bounced back. Compromised computers were responsible for distributing 83.4% of the 107 billion spam messages sent around the world, every single day, during 2009 according to a new Symantec report. Indeed, … |
| | I am working in mioot application ,all windows version email send to inbox,Expect windows vista .please give me the tips to avoid send an email to [B]SPAM ..[/B] |
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