Gary Eckstein Internet 0 CAPTCHA, email, email address, hcard, html, junk mail, lottery scams, microformats, OCR, reCAPTCHA, spam, spam filters, spammers, spamming, unsolicited email
If you have ever put your email address on your website you will know how quickly spambots get your email addres and email huge numbers of messages to your address. There are various scripts (mostly javascript) available which attempt to fool spambots (i.e. hide your email address from spammers) however these scripts are largely ineffective. [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 scams, security, SMS, social engineering, spam
This scam has been around for years however a huge number of people are caught out each day; you receive an SMS (text message) on your mobile/cell phone for someone else (and there is usually a call-to-action such as ‘please confirm by SMS’). The problem is that if you respond to this scam you’ll be [...]
Gary Eckstein WordPress 1 best plugins, blogging, blogs, google, meta tag, mysql, php, phpmyadmin, Search Engine Optimization, seo, spam, sql queries, sql query, WordPress, wordpress plugins, yahoo
There are thousands of WordPress Plugins available which do all sorts of awesome things. Here are the five plugins which I use on every WordPress site I set-up or administer: All in One SEO Pack This is one of the most popular WordPress Plugins and for good reason. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is essential in [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 1 email, gmail, google, internet search, spam, Trojan, virus
Google has very many products both in development and actively being used by huge numbers of people and organizations. Google is mostly known for Internet search however one product used by tens of thousands of organizations (as well as Google’s Gmail) is Postini which provides ‘email security’. Yesterday,‘Q2 2009 Spam trends’ information was posted by [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 australian government, backlinks, blogger, blogging, blogs, email, email filters, google, linking, optimization seo, search engine results, search engines, seo, software developers, spam, spammers, spamming, tags: serp, weblog software, weblogs, WordPress
Almost everyone is affected with email spam. Spam detectors / email filters have improved substantially over the past few years but unfortunately the skills of the spammers have also improved. It is not just businesses involved in the fight against spammers but also governments; The Australian government, for example, is taking spamming and the negative [...]
