Archive for August, 2010:

Facebook Investigates New Spam Scheme “LOL is this you?”

Posted by TechPunk on August 30, 2010 at 1:54 pm

According to CNET, you better watch what your Facebook chats. If you see “LOL is this you?” close that window.

The messages say “LOL is this you?” and are accompanied by a link that looks like it leads to a video on Facebook, one victim told CNET. In his case, clicking the link directed to a Web page with a “404-Page Not Found” error message and his account sent the spam out to at least one of his friends, he said.

Go read the rest and beware.

Posted in: Facebook, Spam

Tags: facebook, lol is this you?, Spam

Twitter “We’ve tried to send emails to name@address.com” Error fix

Posted by TechPunk on August 26, 2010 at 9:57 am

One of my clients was receiving the following error when logging into her twitter account:

“We’ve tried to send emails to name@address.com but they are not getting delivered, possibly because your email address is no longer valid. Click here to update your email settings, or click here to try sending messages to your email address again.”

She was not receiving any update emails when someone started following her Twitter feed.

Here is how I fixed it:

It looks like the problem stemmed from graylisting on the client’s Barracuda Mail Firewall.

I logged into the unit, clicked on “Recipient Filters” and added noreply@twitter.com to the whitelist.

The messages started to appear in her inbox.

Posted in: Blogging, Twitter

Bloggers Beware! Copyright Trolling for Big Buck Lawsuits

Posted by TechPunk on August 23, 2010 at 3:06 pm

Hey Bloggers… ever quote an interesting article in one of your own posts? Well you really better make sure that you understand Fair Use for copyrighted materials.

Wired.com has an article up By David Kravets in which a weaselly looking CEO is interviewed regarding his new company which is in the business of purchasing up the copyrights to News organizations’ content so that he can bring infringement lawsuits against anyone who quotes the article without getting permission.

Gibson’s vision is to monetize news content on the backend, by scouring the internet for infringing copies of his client’s articles, then suing and relying on the harsh penalties in the Copyright Act — up to $150,000 for a single infringement — to compel quick settlements. Since Righthaven’s formation in March, the company has filed at least 80 federal lawsuits against website operators and individual bloggers who’ve re-posted articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, his first client.

Be sure you know what you are quoting. Here is a link to a list of some of the publications he represents.

Thanks to ace via CDR Salamander