Spammers take over Twitter Trends with sexy hashtags

  Twas the week before Christmas, when all through Tweetland, London saw some odd hashtags, sent out from spam brands. According to the Guardian, Londoners awoke on Friday morning to find their automatically generated trending topics lists stuffed with sexy tags. Namely, spammers used Twitter algorithms to their advantage in order to flood the site…

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UK police: 4 arrested over cybertheft from banks

  Four people have been arrested by detectives investigating the suspected theft of 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) from two U.K. banks, police in London said Wednesday. Metropolitan Police said search warrants executed at two addresses on Tuesday as part of the investigation turned up 80,000 pounds ($131,000) in cash,…

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