Bad Behavior Spam Fighter »

By Rob Safuto on Sep 22, 2006 in Security, Social Media | 1 Comment

This is the first of the spam fighting tools and techniques that I’ll feature following my wiki spam attack.
Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts that helps to protect social websites from spam bots. According to their official website Bad Behavior does this, “by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles [...]

Very Bad Behavior »

By Rob Safuto on Aug 22, 2006 in Blogging, Observations, Social Media | 2 Comments

The Tech Beat blog over at Business Week is having a hard time with trackback spam. So much so that they’ve turned off trackbacks until they can get the situation under control.
I sympathize with their plight. The fact is that spammers will find their way into your blog at every point of entry. Comments, [...]