Archive: Spam
Classic tech tips filed under Spam.
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Huge Spam Operation Shut Down Thanks to TheSecurityFix
Thank you Brian Krebs of the Security Fix. He has just made the internet a little better place. He's worked for several months investigating a group that is believed to have been hosting provider for…
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Great tip for Dealing with SPAM email
In reading over at the Gmail Blog, I came across this suggestion to try with Gmail. The idea is, let's say your address is johndoe@gmail.com Okay, next time you sign up for a mailing list, or need a …
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Site hosting tons of email addresses
A little over a year ago I was doing a web search for my email address (something that's worth doing from time to time.) I ran across my name in a text file hosted at a domain called..... http://www.…
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Approaches to beating form spam submission
I've replaced bare email addresses on web page with either an encoded variation of the email or with a contact form to discourage spam scrapers and other automated tools from using it for a spam magn…
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Persistent spammers
Over the last couple weeks I've gotten persistent and annoying spams from a place that is currently at broadcastemailcompany.com (although they have had variations on their domain during that time.) …
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The Spam fight turns to blogs....
I've detailed some of the struggles I had for a bit with FLOODS of comment spam. Details of the issue and a fix which has been rock solid for Wordpress can be found in the following posts (reverse ch…
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Trackback spam and countermeasures like Akismet and trackback validation
As I've already commented today.... there has been a massive trackback spam swarm going on the last 24 hours. I've now racked up 1300 or so in the Akismet filter on this site and another 150 or so on…
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Another trackback spam storm overnight....
All of the the swarms of trackback spam seemed to last an hour give or take a few minutes, so it does look kind of like "rent-a-bot" activity, lots of different IP addresses, trackback spam sites see…