Hackers are targeting websites and blogs by exploiting the trackback feature to launch spam attacks, experts have warned.A Filipino online news agency, Newsbreak, was hit with 27,000 pornographic links from its website. The newswire has now suspended the trackback feature of its site, according to reports.
Trackback technology allows blog writers to check who has [...]
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Veteran malware researcher Joe Stewart was fairly sure he’d seen it all until he started poking at the SpamThru Trojan—a piece of malware designed to send spam from an infected computer.
The Trojan, which uses peer-to-peer technology to send commands to hijacked computers, has been fitted with its own anti-virus scanner—a level of complexity and sophistication [...]
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I was just noticing that Bad Behavior has blocked 1250 access attempts in the last 7 days. That’s a lot of spamming attempts. I mean that even count the ones that Akismet has caught, which is 2,611 spam. Though looking at the balances, I’ve got to wonder if Bad Behavior is blocking [...]
Downtime « Akismet
The stats code introduced yesterday had a bug which only triggered about 24 hours after it had launched. It kicked in for different blogs at different times, but the result was that starting sometime last night you probably started to see really obvious spam getting past your Akismet filters.
All of our systems were [...]
Well after the upgrade akismet had gotten ovre written, and along with it was the worse offenders version. Well While I was looking at it to verify he was using the latest Akismet code in his version I noticed he had his htaccess one there… and so far he hadn’t any issues. When I looked [...]
A spammer dead can be considered good news to many… kinda sad… but still good news. In this case it seems this Russian spammer Vardan Kushnir wasn’t killed for being a spammer… just having money.
Vardan Kushnir, murdered in late July in Moscow, may have fallen victim to a 15-year-old girl and her three friends, a [...]
Well todays scan made me create a new catagory… “SPAM”. Not the tasty luncheon meat, but the junk that is clogging up my email servers. Chris has been posting in his blog about his experinces getting his spam filter working… with some interesting / funny posts. But this latest has been slightly scary.
Now that I’ve [...]
