The tool, developed internally at SoundCloud and open-sourced on Monday, aims to help large community-driven web services identify spammy followers and contributors and make it so they’re “shouting into the wind.” Read more »
Are you finding your in-box flooded with LinkedIn requests? That may be because some people are sending out the invitations against their will, according to a lawsuit that accuses the site… Read more »
Researchers have a devised a method for identifying fake Twitter accounts that proved highly accurate across 27 popular black-market merchants. With Twitter’s cooperation, they spotted and deleted millions of accounts, using… Read more »
In a Reddit AmA, a Black Hat hacker breaks down the business of spamming and DDoS attacks on the internet. He says he sends 90 million spam mails a day. Read more »
Glide is an Israeli-based video messaging app that’s seen strong growth recently, but it has had a spamming problem. The company told us that it’s now stopped auto-inviting your friends after… Read more »
With the release of iOS 7 this fall will come the ability to block spammers on iMessage and FaceTime. But in the meantime, Apple(s AAPL) has a solution for users of… Read more »
Facebook has come under fire from those who say the network is turning down the volume on their posts, but the bottom line is that the network can — and will… Read more »
Just when you thought spam was under control, a new breed of spammers is taking up new methods to infiltrate our inboxes, search results and social media feeds. Data science could… Read more »
Harder to make connections across this past week since I was on a short vacation, and disconnected for the last half. But there is a strong thematic relationship between two larger… Read more »
Kapersky Lab has released new research showing that spam his in strong decline. At the ends of 2012 it had fallen 8.2% from the end of 2011, down to 72.1% of… Read more »