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[Privacy Digest - News that can impact your privacy.] Official Google Enterprise Blog: Spam data and trends: Q1 2009 ...: It's difficult to ascertain exactly how spammers have rebuilt in the wake of McColo, but data suggests they're adopting new strategies to avoid a McColo-type takedown from occurring again. Specifically, the recent upward trajectory of spam could indicate that spammers are building botnets that are more robust but send less volume - or at least that they haven't enabled their botnets to run at full capacity because they're wary of exposing a new ISP as a target.

[SearchEngineWorld] Google Reports Spam Levels Rose 25 Percent In 2008: "When McColo went offline, we saw spam drop by 70 percent compared with previous levels," Kleha wrote in the Monday blog post, in which she described McColo as a "large source of the world's spam." Some estimates placed the spammers using McColo as serving up as much as three quarters of all Internet spam at the time the hosting company was shut down.

[Mark Pincus Blog] Mark Pincus Blog: Spam is clogging my blackberry: I have to say I'm at this point I would either a) change carriers (using t mobile), b) change devices (blackberry clearly doesn't stop spam) or c) pay for a third party service that reduced these msgs, OR d) contribute to a non profit that funded people to hunt down and expose spammers.

[Bill Hartzer] Want Online Casinos? Search Uncle Sam Courtesy of Google: If an online casino viagra Texas holdem spammer can get their links all over home pages of US Government websites, what’s next? Access to sensitive data about you and me?

[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] “Undetectable” spam: It was recently removed from the Google Index I believe for just such a reason- while I had spent many, many hours of hard work writing and placing unique content - (the site has even had several magazines reference the site) I also had used software I had purchased to develop a number of pages like those above in areas only indirectly related to the website. I had created them over two years ago over the period of about 3 months, but then stopped after someone told me that those type of pages may get me in trouble with Google.

[Content Matters] Sphere adds relevancy to blog search: Today, I find that I use a combination of Sphere and Technorati in my daily searches. More and more I am turning to Sphere first, but Technorati still covers a wider universe and I check them when I don't find what I need in Sphere. 

[Targeting Spam] Jobseekers now targets for spammers - TECH.BLORGE.com: Advertising on Internet | AdwareAlert.co.uk: If spammers had to gather e-mails individually the effort would outweigh the reward. Their enterprise takes advantage of automation, in the form of spambots, programs that ...

[Keyvan Nayyeri - All Comments] Spam Busting in Community Server 2007 - Part 1 : Keyvan Nayyeri: Here I want to write something as sidebar note: sometimes we hear that some people say Community Server is a great platform and an enterprise application but is not something suitable for a single user blogging!  Although I can agree with them about some points but as you see, using such a great platform has an advantage and you can get benefits of these powerful spam blocking features in Community Server. 

[Official Linden Blog] Updates and Further Information on the New Search Project ...: The camp-bots and "professional campers", as I refer to the 24/7 camping avatars, changed all that, and camping virtually dried up for those of us who actually needed the modicum camp chairs paid out. I'll be opening up my own shop some day, and it will have one or two camp pads -- not to increase dwell, but to serve the real people with legitimate accounts who actually need L$, and those camp pads will be custom scripted so I know there are no 'bots on them. 

[Merjis Internet Marketing Blog] Anatomy of a Web Spam Attack | Merjis Internet Marketing Blog: We inspected our web server log files around the time frame of this attack series, manually looking for re-use of identified and previously used Tor exit nodes and the signature of an IP address changing frequently with the same cookie, going back a day before, and up to the point at which access was effectively prevented for this spammer. The primary use of Tor, on this specific site, in this time range, was the described spam activity.

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