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Spammers Attack Apple's Ping Social Network
An anonymous reader writes "Scammers and spammers have deluged the new Ping musical social network, created by Apple and built into the new version of iTunes. Sophos researchers have found that Ping is being overrun by scams and spam messages. 'Apple seems to have anticipated a certain degree of malfeasance, as profile pictures that you upload will not appear until approved by Apple. They are likely filtering for other offensive content as well, so they probably have means in place they could use to stop the spam.' It's ironic that the most common scams on Ping right now revolve around Apple's own iPhone."
The Sophos blog post adds that Apple is doing their best to clamp down on the spam, manually deleting many of the offending messages for now. Reader Tootech adds that Facebook integration was quickly disabled, possibly because of blocked API access.
Is that one of those sites that try to profit from the misspellings?
Do you just have a feeling that people stopped being stupid or can you cite a specific date and time you saw the majority of humanity show some shred of intellect over greed?
I agree, it is quite ironic that both are literally a lost cause! Right?
Whenever in an argument, remember this.
I see Apple has the machine that goes "spam egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam"!
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
What is it with Apple and the network stack? First IOS, now Ping. What's next, GPS for the iPhone called Traceroute?
Nah, it's gonna be their "Geo-Locate Caller" service: TRON.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Apple is having a problem with a new online service? This is inconceivable! Considering the outstanding quality and value that is MobileMe and the unprecedented popularity of iWork.com, I am shocked, shocked, that Apple would have difficulty managing a new online service.