Sometimes the cure can be a lot worse than the disease. In the case of WikiPedia one of the issues was the amount of spam that was being added. While it was all being removed as quickly as it was added the editors have decided to add the "nofollow" tag to all outbound links. If you would like to see the discussion on their mailing list here it is. Some of the posts are … [Read more...] about WikiPedia Kills SEO
Spam Filtering
Skycon Talk?
Laura has put a gun to my head. I have to decide on a topic for my talk at Skycon and I've got about 24 hours to do it. For once I won't be the only representative from Blacknight presenting!! Paul, in a possible moment of madness, also agreed to give a talk. As he's a hardcore geek he'll probably be right at home, whereas I'm a little more wary. What should I give a talk … [Read more...] about Skycon Talk?
The Downside To Reverse DNS
Reverse DNS (PTR records) is extremely useful. However when your office PC(s) are infected with viruses and basically spamming the entire country it might be quite embarassing. A well known Irish company ran into this issue earlier this week when a PC or PCs in their office started sending out emails to hundreds of Irish companies (both real and imagined). Unfortunately for the … [Read more...] about The Downside To Reverse DNS
Ulster Bank Phished
Phishers are getting dumber every day. Irish banks don't send emails to their clients that often and they definitely don't send them on Saturdays... The phisher who took advantage of an insecure server should really have waited until Monday to send out his phish And maybe they need to get some lessons in design as well... I love the way the email was put together using … [Read more...] about Ulster Bank Phished
Spamvertising
Whether it's a forum, a blog or a web directory, it's going to get hit by spamvertising scum. The problem is how often.... The level of junk hitting any dynamic website is just silly. Even if you sanitise the form input, so that's it doesn't do you any actual harm you still have to wade through the emails and other rubbish that is generated. At least some people are still able … [Read more...] about Spamvertising