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Google Play’s New Spam Filters Target Fake Reviews And Paid Installs
As long as there’s money to be made in apps, there will be companies trying to inflate an app’s rating by faking statistics. Now, Google’s taking aim at developers who try to artificially push their app up in the Play Store rankings.
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Google’s Dialer App Now Warns You When You’re Getting A Call From A Spammer
Android: Google is just as sick of robocalls as you are, it seems. The company has just announced that the built-in phone app on Nexus phones will give you a big red warning when you’re getting a call from a spammer.
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Kogan Attracts Phishing Spam Now
This is a very perverse kind of compliment: Australian online retailer Kogan is evidently now well-known enough for cyber-criminals to use it as bait in phishing emails.
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How Spammers Spoof Your Email Address (And How To Protect Yourself)
Most of us know spam when we see it, but seeing a strange email from a friend — or worse, from ourselves — in our inbox is pretty disconcerting. If you’ve seen an email that looks like it’s from a friend, it doesn’t mean they have been hacked. Spammers spoof those addresses all the time,…