Tagged: Fraud

Apple warns appayola-using app-makers
Apple warns app-makers that using appayola services will result in the revocation of their developer account.

Anonymous puts government sites on the bonfire
Hacker group Anonymous targeted El Salvador and Israeli government websites over the weekend, but called off Mexican drug gang 'Operation Cartel'.

TripAdvisor in hot water over 'red flag' feature
TripAdvisor faces legal action from disgruntled hoteliers over its "red flag" feature.

Apple forced to develop fixes for IOS vulnerabilities
Apple is currently developing a fix for vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal confidential data from iPhones, iPad and iPod touch models.

Cheeky Chirpers: Twitter's Top Tweets spams adult content to 1m followers
Even though the microbloggers crowed about tackling spam just last year, a spam attack on Twitter's Top Tweets account has seen adult content retweeted to over 1 million followers.

Caught red-handed: Google penalises Forbes for selling links
Hot off the heels of a Google-led search sting on Bing's results, Mountain View has caught and penalised Forbes for selling links in direct violation of the search seraph's quality guidelines.

Spam-to-search ratio: Google promises to 'do better'
Even though global spam volumes have mysteriously dipped of late, Google has blogged it could and should do better to actively filter spam from search results.

Spam-a-lot? Botnet activity declines - for now
From sexual 'enhancement' offers to malware, spam levels have mysteriously dipped since Christmas as a Russian crime outfit, responsible for half of global spam distribution, halts activity - for now.

Social networkers warned to protect against ID fraud
As new figures reveal that identity fraud affects 1.8 million Brits and costs £2.7 billion a year, social networking users have been advised to get savvy about ID fraud.

Antivirus vendor AVG blocks Linkshare affiliate clicks
Widely used antivirus vendor AVG has started to block clicks on the large Linkshare affiliate network.