Filed under 'spam'
➠ July 27, 2011
Cost of false positives - Laughing Meme
Lovely post from Kellan explaining why Twitter (and other sites) can’t “just block all the spammers”.
When your best users and your worst users share common outlying behaviour, things get tough.
➠ October 21, 2009
Free hint to spamming recruiters
If you can't even be arsed to write an email to me, instead cramming your entire message in piss-poor English into the subject line of the email, I'm not interested in any "opptnys" you may have.
➠ January 12, 2009
The Elements of Spam.
Form the possessive of nouns by adding ‘s, just an apostrophe, just an s, a semicolon, a w, an ampersand, a 9, or anything. “My wifesd*porcupine hot pix for u.”
➠ December 5, 2007
Inside the 'Ron Paul' Spam Botnet - Research - SecureWorks
Interesting insight into the control interface for a spam-blasting botnet.
➠ May 16, 2007
Image Spam: By the Numbers
Good notes on the current state-of-the-art in the arms race between spammers and anti-spam software, trying to skip around OCRing images.
➠ May 3, 2007
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog » SpamAssassin 3.2.0!
Justin’s guide to what’s new and cool in the latest version of SpamAssassin. Installing on my mail server now.
➠ May 1, 2007
Hotmail's antispam measures snuff out legit emails, too | The Register
I’ve been experiencing this — Emails I send to HoTMaiL users are getting silently swallowed, neither bouncing nor ending up in their Spam folders.
➠ April 25, 2007
Introducing http:BL | Project Honey Pot
Project Honey Pot announce a blacklist for IP addresses known to comment spam. This could be easy to integrate with a Django middleware…
➠ April 24, 2007
Tracking Comment Spammers | Project Honey Pot
Project Honey Pot’s traps are now presenting spiders with forms that resemble comments/guestbooks/forums to try to gather some data on comment spamming. If you have a web site, it’s well worth installing the honeypot (or linking to a QuickLink) to help the cause.
➠ March 12, 2007
Spamtrap
Art. “When a new spam email is detected by the installation, it automatically prints it out. The printed email slides down a track into the shredder that analyzes it.”
➠ December 7, 2006
Technical Revenue: The Architecture of Mailinator
Interesting article on the architecture and design decisions behind mailinator.com, your local friendly low-hassle disposable email address site.
➠ November 29, 2006
It's the name on everyone's screen. But is Southridge Ethanol really such a hot stock? | Special_reports | Guardian Unlimited Money
Anatomy of a pump’n’dump scam. Or: Why you’re getting so much more spam this month.
➠ October 2, 2006
PhishTank | Join the fight against phishing
New open database of user-submitted Phishing URLs. Somewhat reminiscent of Mark Fletcher’s old “Trustic” startup. Not sure how well the submission/validation system will scale, or deal with gaming, but it could be interesting to watch.
➠ August 16, 2006
FuzzyOcrPlugin - Spamassassin Wiki
SpamAssassin plugin which OCRs the images attached to image-only mails to work out if they contain text like V14GRA. I imagine this is massively CPU-intense, but it might be worth looking at.
➠ July 1, 2006
Solid Wall of Code: AutoBan
MT plugin that adds “Deny” entries to your .htaccess file when someone’s clobbering you with comment spam, saving you the CPU cycles. I’ve installed it — if it works, I’ll be giddy as a schoolgirl.
➠ June 28, 2006
419 Eater: The Incredible Shrinking Artwork
“Derek Trotter” gets a Nigerian scammer to ship a wooden carving of a Commodore 64. Just fantastic!
➠ June 6, 2006
Gallows humor from inside Enron
When Enrorn was investigated, the contents of their Exchange server was made public. Here’s some of the more amusing things found inside.
➠ May 6, 2006
Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots
Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.
➠ April 15, 2006
➠ January 21, 2006
SiteAdvisor blog: Spam-a-lot
SiteAdvisor’s excellent analysis of webcrap continues. Signing-up for “free” computer games gets you bombarded with 15 spam emails a day.