Approach could help software learn how to identify fake accounts with less honorable intentions.
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By Tom Simonite
It’s not unusual to have user profiles on multiple social networks, or even separate accounts on sites like Twitter–one for work and one for play. But Kyumin Lee ...
Spammers Turn to Social Networks
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As users have flocked to social networks, so, inevitably, have spammers. And according to a recent experiment, users are much more receptive to spam sent via a social network than over e-mail.
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Researchers are monitoring a trick that makes it harder to track and shut down fraudulent websites.
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In the world of online fraud, as in real life, the longer miscreants can operate without being caught, the more money they stand to make. And experts have discovered that many phishers–crooks ...
The team gathered data on compromised pages and the would-be victims.
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By infiltrating a criminal computer network aimed at infecting visitors to legitimate websites, university researchers have gained firsthand insight into the scale and scope of so-called “drive-by ...


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