Sanford Wallace compromised 500K Facebook accounts and sent more than 27 million spam messages. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of analysts ...

Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009. Wallace, 43, allegedly used a ...

Facebook has sent notes of apology and is changing automated systems that blocked environmental activists and other people from posting on like-minded Facebook pages. The activists weren't victims of ...

Your Facebook business page is sometimes the first impression that your company makes on people, so having a spam-free timeline and professional message exchanges is ...

Facebook announced a crackdown on spam characterized by “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The spammers avoided detection by using engaging content. The content itself was not spammy. Thus, Facebook ...

When Facebook first announced its external site "like" feature back in April, many security types pondered how it would soon be exploited for evil. The "like" feature is designed by Facebook so web ...

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A study that involved downloading more than three million Facebook profiles has provided the largest-ever snapshot of the methods used by spammers on the world’s biggest online social network. The ...

Commonly sent to Facebook users over 27 million spam messagesSpam King"Was sentenced to a fine of 30 months for imprisonment and about $ 310,000 (about 32 million yen). Sanford "Spam King" Wallace ...

A Facebook spam warning message. Source: Facebook Facebook has gained its massive following in part by making everything you say relevant to someone. But apparently that doesn’t extend to the social ...

The self-proclaimed Spam King, accused of sending 27 million bogus messages to Facebook users, turned himself in to the FBI on Thursday after he was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Jose.

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