 |
| Newsletter Signup | ||||||||
|
Avoiding A Sploggers Arms Race Bloggers are confronting the idea that sploggers are ripping content, and posting it on their own Adsense laden web sites. Date: 2007-12-21 Reverse Engineering Spammers Testing the Water Spammers are annoying, and generally can cause problems, what is worrying is when spammers are busy out there testing the water, and no one seems to notice. Date: 2007-11-26 Spamments & Spamversations: Staying Out Of Unwanted Conversations There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals... Date: 2007-11-09 7 Tips For Identifying Trackback Spam & Comment Spam For a new blogger, getting comments or trackbacks is exciting. However, some of them could be automated spambots filling up your comments with links to sites you wouldn’t want your visitors seeing. Date: 2007-10-12 Social Networking Spam And Privacy If you are like the many people getting Quechup invitation spam, consider how it relates to the serious privacy problems with Social Networking. Quechup automatically imports your Gmail contacts and spams them when you register for their YASNS. Date: 2007-09-28 Social Network Email = Spam? Is anyone else starting to think of all the different social network friends invites - and the social networks' many other reminders & messages - as spam? Date: 2007-09-12 What Is Motivating Spammers? I don't get it, Dave. I get reams of lame, idiotic spam email and occasionally read through them to see what offers are being made, and they're just so incredibly dumb that I can't imagine that ANYone would ever respond. So why do they send 'em? Date: 2007-08-17 Personalized Spam May Lead To Infection Social engineering through data mining allows criminals to make their email come-ons look legitimate, but visiting included links could lead to a system being compromised. Date: 2007-07-27 Euro Business Guide Scamming Again I mentioned this before. I just cant understand how this crowd are still in operation. Total bunch of crooks: Please print and fill the enclosed document and send... Date: 2007-07-06 Akismet False Positives And Spam Karma Configuration Spam Karma for me is the most effective comment and trackback spam management solution because it doesn't cause me problems with false positives on many... Date: 2007-06-15 Beware Of Blog Blasting Software I receive a bunch of junk e-mail every day. In fact something like 100 or so pieces of it. I often skim through it looking for information and new scams, wondering how... Date: 2007-06-01 New eBay Phishing Mail Scares Users Into Revealing Information What do you do when you receive an email from an online financial company that you regularly deal with, informing you about the completion of a transaction that... Date: 2007-05-18 Wordpress Honeypot Plug-in From a security viewpoint, this little plug in for Wordpress is one of the more interesting little scripts you can dump onto your Wordpress blog, to see how many evil systems are trying to access your site. Date: 2007-05-04 Cutting MyBlogLog Spam Social traffic is fantastic because: It’s highly targeted. It’s immediate. It’s low cost and often free. Date: 2007-04-20 Trackbacks - Are They Dying? Steve Rubel at MicroPersuasion thinks trackbacks are dying. He cites tests of news trackback features at CNET and Yahoo that didn’t last as indicators that enthusiasm about trackback is waning. Date: 2007-04-06 Unsafe On Blogger: Star Wars, Girlfriends, Drugs Security firm Fortinet has found a lot of malicious code posted on Google's Blogger service, with a mass mailer worm directing spam recipients to it in some instances. Date: 2007-03-16 Email Fight Club - Avoid Spam, Spyware, Scams, Cookie Hunters Follow these 10 common sense suggestions to avoid email trouble. 1. Suspect Everyone: Most unsolicited email is harmless junk from someone just hoping to make a sale or generate a list.. Date: 2007-03-02 Anti Spam Tips From The Department Of Energy Anti-spam techniques The US Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Committee (CIAC) has provided specific countermeasures against electronic mail spamming. Date: 2007-02-16 No Friends On MySpace For Spam King Scott Richter gained a notorious footnote in the history of the Internet for his mass email activities, and has now been accused of using MySpace to send millions of spam messages. Date: 2007-01-26 What You Should Know About Trackback Spam Trackback facilitates communication between blogs. When a blogger writes a new entry whether to comment on or refer to an entry found at another blog, the commenting blogger can notify the other blog with a Trackback ping. Date: 2007-01-05 |
|