Stamp Out SPAM

Fake blog posts spamvertise knock-off pills Cybercrime affiliates of unlicensed pharmaceutical websites have begun moving on from attacks purely designed to poison Google search engine results, and are now targetting Microsoft's web properties.…Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work  

Well, this is equal parts frightening and annoying: Malware writers and their lot have been buying up data centres and getting approved for large blocks of IP space. What’s that mean? That they can pretty much run rampant. (more…)  

The Google Webmaster Blog has this short post explaining how abusing sites' comment fields by putting up comment containing links to the poster's site can actually hurt both sites' ranking. That is of course if the comments posted are actually not related to the post or gibberish. In short, non legit comments whose objective is to raise the poster's site…Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.Google Says Spamming Other Sites...  

Marketing emails are at risk of being blocked as spam because businesses are not correctly managing the email communications they send out, a survey has found. More than half of the 157 marketing managers surveyed by the DMA Email Marketing Council said their business did not restrict the number of messages that could be sent to an email account in a given period.  

CNet News reports that spammers and scammers are exploiting Google Doodles. As you can imagine, there are many people who click on the Google Doodle from the Google home page. Clicking on the logo will trigger a search result in Google. If you look at Google Hot Trends for yesterday, you will [...] ....  

Coen Dijkgraaf writes: "Project Honey Pot is a community of tens of thousands of web and email administrators from more than 170 countries around the world who are working together to track online fraud and abuse. The Project has been online since 2004 and each day receives millions of email and comment spam messages which are catalogued and shared with law enforcement and security partners. On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT...  

A few folks have alerted me that a particular Geology News item has been showing up in the Geoblogosphere feed multiple times. I’m looking into this issue and frankly, I’m not sure why this keeps happening. The offending item only appears in my own RSS feed once. But when I look at the Geoblogosphere feed, there [...]  

 Hi kids. Back up and read the previous posts in the series first so you know what's goin' on.   Continuing the harrowing exchange between Larry and Olga, we pick up where we left off..remember she was tempting him with pics of herself in the sauna, and Larry sent her a photo of Phyllis Diller as his mom. Well, she wrote back and things are getting pretty intense now, and we FINALLY have come to what she is REALLY after...read on! Her next...  

It’s been quite some time since I had a decent rant on this blog, and I didn’t sleep well last night, and I am feeling a tiny bit grumpy, so pretty much anything will set me off on a rant. I figure I may as well get it off my chest now, then I [...]  

When I sift through dozens of spam emails that land in my inbox daily or moderate numerous spam comments here on Profy, I can’t help but repeat the same questions again and again because some things in the behavior of spammers are totally beyond my understanding. So I thought that I’d publish the questions here [...]  

Rohnert Park, Calif., November 23, 2009 -- Among the more common types of spam today is what has been labeled as "Snowshoe" spam, which references a spamming technique of spreading spam output across many static ranges of IP addresses and domains. As the trend has continually grown over the past several months, several email security providers have started to use publicly available Real-time Blacklists (RBLs) to block the campaigns. Red Condor...  

Slashdot points us to the news that a patent (6,631,400 -- which appears to be incorrectly titled "Statement regarding federally sponsored research or development.") on managing spamming efforts has been tossed out as obvious by the federal circuit, following a similar ruling at the lower level. What's most interesting here is that while some of the steps were thrown out due to prior art, the final step was tossed out due to "common sense...  

If you look in my previous two posts, you’ll see what I assume are automatically generated surveymonkey.com requests for participants on a study on the media by Smith College students.  Let me express to the Smith College students who thought this a good idea, and whatever faculty supervisor approved it, that this is Not a [...]  

Twitter Nov. 5 began the slow rollout of its retweet button, which blasts out tweets users are fond of to their followers in one fell swoop. This is a sensible alternative to making Twitterers copy, paste and tweet links they love, add the names of the tweet authors with a RT (retweet) tag. Twitter also said it was experimentally tweaking its trending topics to help users find more relevant tweets. The idea is to thwart spammers, which are...  

Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies and the innovator of identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions, today announced the Q3 2009 Internet threats trend report, prepared in collaboration with its partner, Commtouch. Among the ...