Spam
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Monday, August 31st, 2009Government agencies are now looking upstream to nail spammers. They’re going after web hosting services. McColo, a U.S. hosting service, was considered a major source of online scams. They provided the means not only for the remote management of compromised computers, but also for the sale of fake security and designer products and child porn [...]
Google Page Ranking
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Ever heard of Google sculpting? Search engines have been getting slammed with internet comment spam. What happens is people post their web site links onto blogs and forums, thereby increasing in-bound links to their site. This benefits them because one of the factors that determine page rank by Google is the number of links into [...]
Google Adwords counterfeit e-mail
Friday, July 25th, 2008If you’re a Google Adwords advertiser, watch out for the phishing e-mail that could put your account at risk. Phishing means (from Wikipedia) a fraudulent attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Communications purporting to be from PayPal, eBay, [...]
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