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[Latest Activity on CrimeSpace] 1000 must read Crime Thrillers listed at Observer [UK] - CrimeSpace: If you talk about a Guardian article in the post, link directly to it. Linking to a blog instead is, in the colloquial usage of the term, blogspam, regardless of the intent.

[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Natural Language Shellcode: Specifically, we elucidate how one can use natural language generation techniques to produce shellcode that is superficially similar to English prose. We argue that this new development poses significant challenges for inline payloadbased inspection (and emulation) as a defensive measure, and also highlights the need for designing more efficient techniques for preventing shellcode injection attacks altogether.

[LevelTen Web Design | Dallas, TX] Best Drupal Spam Modules for Getting Rid of Spamming | LevelTen ...: Having tried Mollom and both Captcha services at one point or another, the two modules that are most interesting, and that represent the best candidates for solving our spam problems are Comment Lockdown and Blog Spam. While other modules are mostly built for blocking robot spam and contact form spam, both of these modules seem focused around blocking comment form spam.

[Emergent Chaos] Emergent Chaos » Blog Archive » I wrote code for a botnet today: Legitimate mail servers would always wait for the response, but spambots often blindly spewed SMTP commands without waiting. (I put a couple of short, deliberate delays into the transaction to make this behavior more obvious.) I figured they’d adapt eventually to this technique but it took quite a long time before I saw a significant decline in effectiveness.

[drupal.org - Modules] BlogSpam | drupal.org: This plugin simply passes the comment and other useful information (e-mail if provided, subject if provided, IP address of the submitter etc) to the blogspam service. Some options are configurable (number of URLs for the lotsaurls plugin, min/max size and min number of words) and other options may be added.

[The Blog Herald] Are You Noticing An Increase In Blogspam Too? | The Blog Herald: posts is through the IP and URL of the commenter. We’ve been getting a lot of traditional spam recently that gets through SK2 precisely because the URL comes from Blogspot.com, where it gets a ton of points (granularity).

[Darknet - The Darkside] Microsoft Takes an Effort at Cutting Down Blogspam - Splogs ...: Microsoft today released new research on the epidemic of spam blogs ”” or “splogs” ”” as well as the “comment spam” that dodgy marketers splatter all over blogs in a bid to improve their sites' search-engine rankings. ... Wordpress has its own tips here, or users can outsource their blogspam patrol (well, sort of) with Akismet, a free (for personal use) tool that compares any link, trackback or comment left on your Wordpress blog to a service “which runs hundreds of tests ...

[codeworks gnomedia] codeworks gnomedia » Blog Archive » Blog spam (blam?): Of course, we now know that anyone trying to submit a comment using wp-comment-post.php (the original Wordpress comment script) or my-commenta-post.php or my-commentc-post.php is a spambot and it is a simple matter of replacing those three pages with a php script that could do all kinds of things. In my case I keep track of all the IPs that make use of the script and I could then use that script to block them from other sites and other blogs that I use or administer.

[JP's Blog] Blogspam: On an entirely different subject than the Wheel of Time, as a blog writer I never thought I would get more spam for my seldom-frequented website than from my email address. And yet, given Gmail’s awesome spam-blocking and Word Press’s less-than-inspirational filtering, such is my life.

[ZAPNotes] ZAPNotes: Blogspam: Make an interesting comment and you'll be rewarded with page views and maybe frequent readership. But blog spam isn't welcome and doesn't work. So don't do it. Just. Don't. Thank you. Posted by Zach Pennington at 5:26 PM ...

[HTML Blog on the Web] HTML Blog on the Web | rel nofollow tag: From a blog owner's point of view, the nofollow link tag could be seen as an important tool in the fight against spam links. If they are willing to spend a small amount of time each day simply adding rel="nofollow" into any spam links added to their site they will be able to save their site from leaking its valuable PageRank to any unethical webmasters.

[bruceb consulting - news] BLOG SPAM: I don’t have a big audience and there are few comments from real people. You, my family and dear friends and clients and any of the rest of my fourteen readers, you are always welcome to add a comment.

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