We are all aware of CAPTCHA – Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, but in this day and age when disabilities are a key issue for society should sites be still allowed to use them? The main reason for a CAPTCHA is to prevent bots from registering on sites to [...]

The Clever thing to do, would be just remove my site from your scripts… Or you could say hey “I’m linking to a texas holdem site”….. go figure, I’ve played nice but I could just publish all your footprints, IP addresses and URL’s … I guess the last thing that the Blog Spammers would like [...]

Summit on how to handle comment spam from a blog that can’t handle comment spam… www.sifry.com Come on guys get your shit together DaveN

Well it had to happen sooner than later, everyone knew that subdomains rocked in the spam world but early last month when site:yahoo.com only returned 7 results (well that got fixed ). That should have sent a message to all the spammers “hey Google is up to something again” well it did to me anyway… [...]

So it’s 2005 and what will the New Year hold… more Spam attacks on blogs or have the spammers found someting “NEW” … well over the christmas period I have seen an increase in Ping Spam (trackback) this ones quite nice it’s automated so when you create a new post it pings you straight away, [...]

Ok I don’t thing this is the ideal system but it works for me, getting a merchant to trust you when the site that is generating the traffic is less than white, anyway this is one method: The traffic site: this is a spam site with back links from blogs, guestbooks etc, it’s keyword stuffed [...]

I have heard stories … That some blogspammers can cause DDoS attacks, so I looked into this Most spamming scrips will crawl Yahoo and Google of things like MT_comments.cgi once the database is large enough, you can start automating the signings,.. well what if you had spidered the Blogs and collect ALL their url’s if [...]