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Is Facebook a B2B channel (yet)? - Hire Strategies Blog
blog.hirestrategies.co.uk | Feb 6, 2012
You can dress SPAM up anyway you like, but SPAM is SPAM is SPAM. Or is it? When I was thinking about this post, it was in response to accepting a friend request from someone I had actually met (albeit in a business context so not a "real" friend). I did hesitate in accepting their request but then

Facebook Spammers Use Amazon's Cloud - F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab
www.f-secure.com | Feb 1, 2012
F-Secure Security Labs brings you the latest online security news from around the world. Ensure that you are up-to-date with the latest online threats to guarantee your online wellbeing.

Web Comic Draws Inspiration From a Spam Bot - NYTimes.com
bits.blogs.nytimes.com | Jan 6, 2012
A spam bot on Twitter that tries to get people to buy electronic books about horses has spawned a following online by people amused by its nonsensical ramblings. <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/web-comic-draws-inspiration-from-a-spam-bot/">Read more...</a>

Yahoo! Mail – 1, Spammers – 0 | Yodel Anecdotal
ycorpblog.com | Dec 8, 2011
Today Yahoo! announced a big milestone in the fight against spam – we were awarded a $610 million judgment against spammers responsible for creating a fake Yahoo! lottery email scheme. This scheme was perpetrated against email users and led them to believe that they were being offered a lottery

Business Strategy: Engate Technology Appoints Tony Busa as Vice President of Marketing
business-strategy.blogspot.com | Nov 30, 2011
skip to main | skip to sidebar Business Strategy Business Strategy energizes small business. Strategy makes small business larger! Wednesday, August 06, 2008 Engate Technology Appoints Tony Busa as Vice President of Marketing Tony Busa VP Marketing for Engate Technology: Engate is an anti-spam

Social Spam Start-Up Gets $8 Million In Wake of Facebook Attack - Digits - WSJ
blogs.wsj.com | Nov 17, 2011
Former Yahoo “spam czar” Mark Risher just got $8 million of venture-capital funding for his new start-up, Impermium, that’s created technology for social network sites to combat spam.

Email Deliverability Still Plagues Marketers - Website Magazine - Website Magazine
www.websitemagazine.com | Sep 21, 2011
Email certification and reputation monitoring company Return Path has announced the findings from its Global Email Deliverability Benchmark Report, which indicate that email deliverability still plagues commercial email senders worldwide with only 81...

Twitter hacked:
www.computerweekly.com | Jul 1, 2011
As the whole of Britain relaxes to watch Andy Murray take on Rafael Nadal at Wimbledon, it seems that a hacker has managed to infiltrate Twitter, causing a wave of spam tweets featuring the words

Schneier on Security: Spam as a Business
www.schneier.com | Jun 9, 2011
Interesting research: Kirill Levchenko, et al. (2010), "Click Trajectories -- End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain," IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2011, Oakland, California, 24 May 2011. Abstract: Spam-based advertising is a business. While it has engendered both widespread

One Phish, Two Phish, Classic Phish, SPEAR Phish?! | Symantec Connect Community
www.symantec.com | Jun 2, 2011
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