PlatformPlay, Rammohan Sundaram’s new startup has announced a tie-up with the innovative CAPTCHA service called NLPCaptcha which is designed to use to the spam blocking mechanism of CAPTCHA and integrate advertising messages. The company announced that the entire sales inventory of NLPCaptcha will be moved to PlatformPlay in a phased manner. NLPCaptcha launched in 2011 and has since since seen wide...

According to the latest report from Sophos Labs, India has now climbed down two spots to become the third biggest spam spewing nation in the world. The USA and China now occupy the first two slots. In their previous report from last year, India had topped among other nations as the world’s biggest spam spewing country. The report called Dirty Dozen lists the top 12 spam spewing countries in the...

My Portable World has reported the existence of an Android app which can report mobile spammers to the TRAI very easily. The app is called India Against Spam and is currently live on Google Play. It can be downloaded for free. The app is compatible with all Android phones which have OS version 2.1 and above. Reporting spam or Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC)  to the TRAI has been around...

Norton, the international company that offers web and computer security products has announced that it has opened a Hindi language support centre in India to cater to the growing number of Hindi speaking users who are accessing the Internet. Starting today, Norton users can call this support centre and get support in Hindi. Ritesh Chopra, Country Sales Manager, India, Norton spoke about this new offering. “We...

We have all faced the CAPTCHA at some point in our Internet dependent existence. It has made us feel irritated at having to prove that we are human even though it exists for a good purpose. Without CAPTCHAs, comment boards would be filled with spam-bots offering you dildos and penis enlargements. The spam has reduced but CAPTCHA is still vulnerable. The Civil Rights Defenders which is activist group,...

Mashable is reporting that the number of fake Facebook profiles has amounted to an astounding figure of 83 million! The company has disclosed this information itself in its 10-Q filing. This means that somewhere around 8.7% of the Facebook user base is fake. There is more info provided in the filing which deals with the types of bogus accounts on the social network. Out of this fake account percentage,...

If you think social networking sites are safe and all the information that you share on these is limited to your friends alone, then you are wrong. The Internet Security Threat Report suggests that social networking sites are increasingly being used to launch malware attacks in India and also to perpetrate crimes like identity thefts. The method used by the miscreants is rather simple and unassuming....

Privacy and Security issues have plagued quite a few Facebook users over the years and the social network has now set up a Security Tips webpage where it offers you tips on the latest types of spam and security threats. After the LinkedIn and eHarmony.com hacking episode last week, this is probably Facebook’s way of making its users feel secure in using the service. The page also gives users a few...

The new social networking website Pinterest is being rapidly used by spammers to launch mass-spamming campaigns, reports McAfee Inc. McAfee fears that given the rapid growth of Pinterest among the users have offered people with malicious intents to launch campaigns that are meant to do all sorts of nefarious activities. What’s the threat? McAfee has uncovered complete toolkits that allow generating...

In what may come as no surprise to many, India has risen to the top as the world’s foremost contributor of spam messages. Sophos, a leading Internet Security provider has come up with its annual list of countries that contribute to worldwide spam. They call this list the ‘Dirty Dozen’. India contributes a staggering 9.3% of the global spam amount. It is followed by the U.S which accounts for...