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Title: Hold the phone: iMessage spam not all it's cracked up to be Post by: HCK on August 23, 2014, 09:00:19 pm Hold the phone: iMessage spam not all it's cracked up to be
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Is Apple’s iMessage the new favorite tool of spammers worldwide? A widely-quoted recent article (http://www.wired.com/2014/08/apples-imessage-is-being-taken-over-by-spammers/) written by Wired’s Robert McMillan suggests it is, even going so far as to claim that iMessage “is being taken over by spammers.”</p><p>Largely based on an interview with security analyst Tom Landesman, McMillan states that, thanks to a few enterprising fraudsters who have figured out a way to take advantage of Apple’s networks, iMessage accounts for some 30 percent of all mobile spam, and that the company’s efforts at stemming the onslaught of unwanted messages are moving too slowly to catch up with the spammers. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2597429/hold-the-phone-imessage-spam-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Hold the phone: iMessage spam not all it's cracked up to be (http://www.macworld.com/article/2597429/hold-the-phone-imessage-spam-not-all-its-cracked-up-to-be.html#tk.rss_all) |