Tags Results for 'spam'

Researchers out faux product review groups with a lot of math and some help from Google - (Tuesday 17th of April 2012 11:49:00 PM)
Ever consulted a crowdsourced review for a product or service before committing your
hard-earned funds to the cause? Have you wondered how legit the opinions you read really are?
Well, it seems that help is on the way to uncover paid opinion spamming [...]
Comment changes - (Wednesday 25th of January 2012 09:02:00 PM)
I made some minor changes when it comes to comments No URLs will be allowed in the title of
the comment, (if allowed to have titles). The number of URLs in the body of the comment will
now be limited, (the number will vary depending on various [...]
Where did my comments go? - (Monday 12th of December 2011 06:43:00 AM)
We often get some questions about 'disappearing' comments. What happens is no big secret, but
rather a sign that we are not relying on technology as much as people think we are. You see, we
have a spam bot running in the background, constantly evaluating [...]
India caps text messages to curb telemarketing, Desi teens plot mutiny - (Thursday 29th of September 2011 10:37:00 PM)
SMS-based telemarketing is a serious problem in India -- so serious, in fact, that the state
has decided to crack down in a pretty severe way. As of this week, every Indian mobile user or
company is allowed to send only 100 text messages per [...]
US government to beat back botnets with a cybersecurity code of conduct - (Friday 23rd of September 2011 06:34:00 PM)
Old Uncle Sam seems driven to crack down on botnets, but he still needs a little help
figuring out how to do so. On Wednesday, the office of Homeland firmness and subject ritual of
necessary and transport (NIST) published a request for information, [...]
Bab-behavior not behaving? - (Saturday 13th of August 2011 06:45:00 AM)
For a while now I have been running Bad-behavior for a while now and I must admit I have never
really noticed a major slow down in the number of spam registrations/entries. This is primarily
because it is blindingly easy to fix whatever issue the [...]
Back to normal... kind of. - (Saturday 23rd of July 2011 12:14:00 PM)
After the spam attack we had last week things are slowly getting back to normal. It has
nothing to do with spammer giving us a break, what really happened is that I changed the blog
signup page, (to be a bit more user friendly), and the [...]
Weathering the spam storm - (Thursday 14th of July 2011 01:50:00 PM)
Just a quick note to let you know that we have been under a larger than usual spam attack over
the last 2-3 days. The spam bot is still doing its job, (and doing it rather well I think ),
but it is taking a bit [...]
Using bad-behavior, sometimes. - (Thursday 02nd of June 2011 08:47:00 PM)
I have re-enabled bad-behaviour, (and updated it to their latest version in the 2.0 branch),
but I don't think I will keep it on permanently. I think it does have a lot of false
positives. So I think the best option is to leave it in [...]