It seems like spammers are now moving to automated spam via popular web mail services as a way to bypass IP-blacklisting services.
It’s a large advantage for them as they can still use botnet sources to generate the e-mail but the source IP address will be from a ‘trusted’ domain such as Gmail or Yahoo!.
The growing [...]
Recently one of the sites I am developing for my self was link spammed. Some unpleasant individual decided that it would be fun to post 160 “comments†spread over all the blog posts. All the comments contained was URL’s. Even more stupid they used BB tags, but as I wrote the site it doesn’t use [...]
CAPTCHA, acronym for “completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart” is used, most of the times at least, as an authentication mechanism. Not to prove your identity, but to do a much simpler job than that; to prove your a human.
With the bad guys always a step ahead (which is cool [...]
