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YourName@Live.com - Crack Microsoft Captcha in 6 seconds
Have you noticed an increase in the amount of blight cluttering up your inbox lately? Computer world reported yesterday that the latest attach by bot masters show that they are now able to solve the Microsoft Live - Hotmail Captcha in 6 seconds using an infected computer. While ... more  
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Online Crime tops 200 Billion
USA Today reports that according to the latest statistics, online crime has reached $200 billion a year. The slew of stories about blight have started to take hold, with a majority of American’s worried about transaction fraud. The hazards of surfing and shopping online have shaken consumer confidence in ... more  
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Online Marketers Funding Virtual Blight
VB’s own Blight Fighter was featured in Search Engine Land this week, talking about the need for online marketers to be responsible about where their money is going. The central thesis of this argument is that the public perceives the Internet as a dangerous, unregulated place. While this ... more  
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Identity Thieves Steal Brand Equity
Today’s Media Post had a very insightful analysis that demonstrates how identity thieves who hit major retailers over the last few year not only stole credit card data, they eroded the trust consumers have in both individual brands and in the retail segment. “These thefts zap trust,” says ... more  
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The Ten Commandments To Eliminate Blight
Urban Blight in the real world drives away anyone with the ability to leave. Virtual blight: Spam & Scams, ads for warez & prescription drugs, porn & casinos along with vandalism, griefing, trolling and generally people being a$$#@!es, drivers away “respectable” traffic and drowns out the contributions ... more  
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Coming Captcha Crisis
If you can read the text strings below, chances are pretty good you’re human.   These five graphics were plucked a few days ago from the sign-up pages of the most visited sites on the Internet: Google, Yahoo, MySpace, YouTube, and FaceBook. These sites, and virtually every ... more  
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Google Profits From MySpace Attackers
Google is just one many companies profiting from spreading blight. Pundits make a fairly convincing case that Google Adsense has been the single largest factor driving the creation of Splogs and MFA Webspam. Googles contribution to Virtual Blight goes beyond monetizing bad content for spammy webmasters. Google ... more  
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The High Cost of Fake Traffic on the Web
Problem Humans have become a minority on the Internet. Although the Web was conceived as a medium for human communications; automated traffic sent for illicit purposes now accounts for more traffic, by many orders of magnitude, than human beings. Bots and agents now send 95% of all email ... more  
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