Tag: Spamming
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Spotify no more
Radio Clash has been taken off Spotify for copyright Infringement! Thanks to listener Nick for letting me know, the terse email from Spotify went into my Spam folder. I suspect this is more RIAA/Universal nastiness…I’ve asked Spotify to clarify.
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Priceless – spammer posts dataset
In what has to be a classic act, a spammer on one of my sites has accidentally posted most if not all of the dataset in creating their spams. In one sense it makes a strange kind of poetry, a choose-your-own fiction for the 21st century. You can see the logic in how they slightly…
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WordPress Security 101
Running several WordPress sites, especially ones that gather a lot of welcome and unwelcome visitors, is a crash course in security. I’ve been using WordPress since version 1.2, where hacks were much more common, and thankfully have only been hacked once *touch wood*, back in the 1.5 days. For those not part of the WordPress…
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How to secure WordPress
Horrified by the amount of login attempts my WordPress sites gets (something in the region of 1-5 a day, sometimes more – and this is after each one being blocked), I tweeted today about locking down your WordPress. I’ve already had a few responses confirming that they too have this deluge of hackery, some of…
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New spam plugin
Although I love my former spam plugin it’s not supported anymore and the trackback spams are getting far worse, as well as the ones slipping through (not false positives, are they true negatives?) so with a heavy heart I’ve switched to another. seems to work well BUT there is always teething troubles – if your…
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spam spam spam spam
4 1/2 months. nearly 14,000 pieces of comment spam. If my bad scribbled on the back of a envelope with a blunt crayola workings are right, that’s and average 13 pieces of spam a minute. Now that’s scary.