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<title>Apple corrects iCloud email glitch, blames spam filters</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/01/emails.with.key.phrase.were.being.inexplicably.deleted/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1362121399_Apple-iCloud-glitch-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A bizarre glitch has revealed the existence of "pre-filtering" spam deletion algorithms being used by Apple for its iCloud email. The company acknowledged the issue and has since fixed it, but when an iCloud user would attempt to send an email with the phrase "barely legal teens" in the subject, body or title of some kinds of attachments to another iCloud user, the email would not be delivered. Re...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google claims victory against account hijackers</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/19/algorithms.protect.against.spammers/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1361297540_spammerssml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google has claimed victory against account hijackers, claiming the number of legitimate accounts compromised by spammers has dropped by 99.7 percent since 2011. The company's latest security protocols have been developed in response to a surge in account hijacking starting in 2010, as cyber criminals began using stolen passwords to distribute spam from legitimate accounts in an attempt to bypass ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Civil rights activists release empathy-based Captcha system</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/10/07/test.requires.responding.with.correct.emotional.response/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1349656712_empathycaptchathumb.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A new captcha system has been released by a Swedish human rights group. The new test by the Civil Rights Defenders activist group uses "human emotion" as part of the check, by asking how a person feels about an event and asking them to type the word that matches from a selection of three....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Users report iCloud accounts may have been compromised</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/05/17/isolated.reports.suggest.rare.breach/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/icloud-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A small number of users in the Apple Support Communities have reported that their iCloud e-mail accounts may have been compromised by spammers, even in cases where the user had a strong, randomized password. Reports began flowing in of mostly little-used iCloud accounts sending out spam messages, replies to which alerted users of the problem. Apple has not commented on the issue thus far....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 01:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Twitter sues spammers, spam tool developers</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn3.macnn.com/news/1202/Twitter-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Twitter has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco federal court against five companies that are claimed to profit from spamming operations. The suit is said to be not limited to just spammers themselves, but also the developers that have created tools that are used to spread bulk marketing messages via the social network....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>T-Mobile apologizes for, scraps Android notification bar ads</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/tmobile_spam_gallery.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[T-Mobile has issued an apology for spamming Android users on its network through their notifications bar. Some Android customers on its network received the ads promoting T-Mobileís free VIP Zone and noticed them pulling down the notification window. According to the company, the notices were sent inadvertently and were stopped as soon as the company was notified of the problem through user compla...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Judge says Googleís spam SMS not ëfree speechí</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/03/06/judge.paves.way.for.class.action.over.disco.app/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1203/google_disco_gallery.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[A California judge has rejected an argument put forward by Googleís lawyers that spam SMS messages it sent unsolicited to users are covered under the First Amendment. Googleís lawyers had tried to argue that the SMS messages were nothing more than ëinformativeí and, as such, qualified as free speech.  The Judgeís ruling means that a class-action lawsuit can proceed in which the plaintiffs argue th...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>'Beta test iPhone 5' scam text messages spotted</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/02/13/users.test.text.messaging.in.phishing.scam/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/iPhone5-spam-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Though most users would be suspicious, a recent scam spam has spread from email and forums to Twitter, Facebook and now text messaging, according to a recent Apple Support forum posting. Users have reported seeing unsolicited texts and social-network posts claiming that "Apple" is seeking 1,000 testers for text messaging on the iPhone 5. The links go to the websites celltestnkeep.com or cellphonet...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Forums: iPod rumors, iPhone ringtones, more</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/nimagesii/forum_060706_ultimate.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Forum roundup: Rumors about upgrades to the iPod lineup are a recent topic of interest in the MacNN forums where members seem to think that we will see new models by the end of the year.  Advice on how to make ringtones for use with the iPhone 3G can be found in this thread started by jorgem4....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>iPhone has phishing, spamming flaws</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0807/iphonesecurity.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Security researcher Aviv Raff says the iPhone versions of Mail and Safari are vulnerable to URL spoofing, an exploit that could open the door to phishing attacks. Raff says hackers can e-mail specially-designed URL that links to a site that appears to be legitimate. A user might think it is a trusted site like Pay Pal -- but instead the bogus site steals passwords and other information when the us...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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