Tech a byte

Twitter, the popular social networking and micro-blogging service, has currently took over security by cleaning up spam accounts. With this, you may lose followers who are not 'real people' as these accounts are bots that automatically follow Twitter users expectedly used for spamming, phishing and malware-related distribution.

Yahoo! Mail is up-to-date in filtering email with subject line connected to Michael Jackson's death as a spam. Replying to a spam email will then confirm that the email address is active and will be used by spammers in their future activity. Even receiving a forwarded message (see above screenshot) is likely to be cautioned as well and advised not to open such if it came from a unknown sender.