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 Internet 0 anti-virus, blacklisted sites, domain names, free url, google, internet security software, malware, spammers, top level domains, twitter
The 140 character limit in Twitter combined with its incredible success has been welcomed by phishers, spammers, Trojan and virus developers and other malicious content providers (we’ll call them ‘malware’ in this article). As most Twitter users know, URLs are typically shortened using URL shorteners such as Bit.ly (which also powers j.mp) and Tr.im (which [...]
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 [...]
