Archive for the ‘Web Security’ Category

New Spam Article Gets Published

Today www.ezinearticles.com published my article entitled “Protect Email Addresses From Spammers“. This is my first publication on that ezine site. The website has all the earmarks of a quality content website with strict standards rather than some spammy article directory hosted by a guy named Amjeet in India.  I am looking forward to publishing more [...]

Bandwidth Theft

I just ran through some logs and discovered that people are stealing my bandwidth by hot-linking to my images. What is this? Instead of downloading images found on the web to use for your own purposes, which is dubious anyway, the criminal actually uses the URL to my site for the src in the img [...]

Twitter: a Spammer’s Paradise

Do you tweet? Ok… for the uninitiated this means, “do you use Twitter.com?”. Well, if you do, new reports indicate that with a few clicks of the mouse a spammer can harvest thousands of email addresses from the mini-blogging service. One developer noted, “You can sit and just watch the email addresses steadily trickle in… [...]