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April 20th, 2007

Google’s Blogger Platform Used to Aid Phishing Attacks

I’ve known for a while you can buy software for spamming and MFA (Made for Adsense) site generation for a few hundred USD which utilises Google’s Blogger platform (blogspot.com sites).
You will have seen all the splogs as they are called (spam blogs) hosted on Blogger, a lot of them scrape Darknet articles and repost them [...]

August 13th, 2006

Microsoft Takes an Effort at Cutting Down Blogspam - Splogs

Splogs are becoming a huge problem, half the stuff you search for nowadays returns a splog, mostly auto syndicated content.
I find a lot of my own entries on there, surrounded by Adsense ads.
New age scrapers I guess.

Technorati returns a lot of results from splogs too, but at least they have made some efforts to clean [...]