Lauren Goode in Commerce on December 26, 2011 at 7:47 am PT
Forget analyzing your Facebook status updates and Foursquare check-ins. The really interesting data lies in your email exchanges from the past year.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 23, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
The satellite TV service has a whole lot on its plate. So why is it wasting time placing bogus comments on Web sites?
Tom Loftus, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Social on November 15, 2011 at 1:15 pm PT
Facebook said today that a “coordinated spam attack” was to blame for the posting of pornographic and violent images on the news feeds of unsuspecting Facebook users.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on August 11, 2011 at 7:29 pm PT
Facebook has launched a major redesign for games, bringing back some viral components that were turned off after users complained that random alerts were cluttering their news feeds.
Kara Swisher in News on August 9, 2011 at 2:20 pm PT
Rachael Ray might dole out spam recipes on Demand Media, but the company said on its Q2 conference call that its business was not hurt by the spam-killers of Google.
Liz Gannes in Social on April 14, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Almost 15 percent of user-submitted content on large Facebook fan pages is spam, according to analysis done by Vitrue, which makes fan page management systems.
Kara Swisher in News on April 3, 2011 at 7:34 pm PT
Jim Bankoff, the fomer AOL exec responsible for buying Engadget for the Internet portal, has grabbed eight staffers who had recently left the huge tech site amid tensions, in order to start a new gadget property for his SB Nation sports and news platform.
The site–which is still unnamed and will be run by outgoing Engadget Editor-in-Chief Josh Topolsky–will debut sometime in the fall.
Meanwhile, AOL has zeroed in on a new leader to replace Topolsky.
Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 18, 2011 at 4:35 pm PT
Security researchers say that hackers are using the unfolding disaster in Japan by appealing to people’s sense of altruism–or, in some cases, voyeurism–by sending spam email that contain links laden with malicious code. Some of the links are supposed to be of footage of the earthquake or tsunami, some purport to be from relief organizations, while others claim that recipients have inherited $12 million from victims in Japan.
Michael Hickins, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 17, 2011 at 1:54 pm PT
Activity from Rustock, one of the world’s most prolific spam email networks, has ground to a halt, apparently thanks to a coordinated effort by Internet service providers and software vendors. The take-down, which took place Wednesday morning Eastern time, happened without fanfare, and surprised many in the tight-knit community of cybersecurity consultants and experts.
