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Vine: Spammers Find a New Home on Twitter’s Video Sharing Service

25

Jun

2013

In late January of this year, Twitter released Vine, a social video-sharing service that it acquired in late 2012. Initially launched on iOS, Vine has similar characteristics to Twitter as videos are intentionally short (users are only allowed six seconds) and to the point. Earlier this month, an Android version of Vine was released and […]

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Get Free Followers! on Instagram? Get Free Malware, Survey Scams Instead

17

May

2013

The popular photosharing app Instagram is the latest social networking site targeted by the ubiquitous survey scams seen on Facebook and Twitter. This time, we found that these survey scams may also lead users to download an Android malware. I found the following accounts who wanted to ‘follow’ me on Instagram. This is the standard […]

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Twitter hauls spammers into court

08

Apr

2012

Twitter has taken its fight against on-line spam to the courthouse.The instant messaging powerhouse filed documents last Thursday in the US District Court in San Francisco. This brings civil action against a raft of defendants who, says Twitter:* Distribute software tools [which are] designed to faciliate abuse of the Twitter platform and [are] marketed to […]

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