Posts Tagged with ‘scam’

Last week Google rolled out the SearchWiki functionality for its flagship product - Google Search. The functionality allows every registered Google user to customize the search results for every search query - and get exactly the same results next time this user performs a search for the same term. SearchWiki involves voting links appearing in the search results up and down, deleting them if you feel they are not relevant at all or adding new links that are not present [...]

Yesterday we had a peculiar situation around Twitterank, a new Twitter tool that requires you to enter your Twitter login and password and calculates some number that probably means something but it is hard to figure out exactly what it means. It is well known that social media crowd tends to enjoy all types of rankings, ratings, and top lists so there was no surprise in watching how eager people were to check their performance on Twitter with the new [...]

Yesterday BBC reported on a study carried out after a working spam network had been hijacked by scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego. The network studied uses infected home computers to send junk mail in mass volumes instead of using servers of its own. It is reported that at one time the network controlled over a million of machines.
To make the study possible the scientists seized control over a small part of the network and sent [...]

Domain tasting - also known as domain kiting - an underhanded exploitation of a loophole in domain name registration rules that allows unscrupulous SEO ad jockeys to grab a domain name and make money off of it without paying for it. What this means for legitimate web users is that they often can't get their hands on the domain names they want because the domain names are being wasted on these money making schemes.
One simple 5 day [...]