We have seen use of humans by spammers to get smap through the CAPTCHAs. Spammers are getting more innovative and have devised a different way of using people to solve CAPTCHAs. This seems to be lifted off from the where the CAPTCHAs are used to digitize books. [Continue]
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ifacethoughtsSpamming The New Way
While we are debating about how to open up social networks open, there are some who have come up with a new way of spamming. Build a social networking site, lure people in and spam all their contacts. I got a couple of invites, but I have developed a habit of rejecting before accepting invites. [Continue]
Revisit CAPTCHA
CAPTCHAs have been the subjects to extremes – hate and love, complete discard and tremendous reliance on the Web to avoid spam. They are instrumental in identifying humans from machines that programmatically send spam messages. They have been effective, but with a big problem. [Continue]
Beware Of Trackback Spam
Sophos, a security firm has warned bloggers about rise in trackback spam. Like Munir Umrani says, a lot of people have been disabling trackback entirely to avoid the spam attacks. Spam, in all forms, abuses the communication tools provided by the Web and has been pulling the blogosphere down since dawn. [Continue]
Economics Behind Spam
Ever wondered about business models of spammers? Traditionally spam has not been a topic of interest for me. Until I personally faced it – in email, in comments or even in snail-mail! [Continue]
Back To Manual Spamming
Spammers are now outsourcing for manual spamming (via Bloggers Blog) to workaround CAPTCHAs. Though a single spammer cannot be as fast as a machine, thousands of them together than spell a lot of trouble. Captchas force you to identify certain characters and enter them, which machines cannot follow. [Continue]
Scary Spamming
Matt gives an instance of spammers hacking blogs to do what they do. They not only modified the posts, but hid the modifications so that they cannot be discovered. Clever, but still evil! [Continue]
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