Blight Watch

Apr 15, 2008
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  
   
Mar 26, 2008
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  
   
Mar 20, 2008
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  
   
Feb 20, 2008
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  
   
Feb 12, 2008
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  
   
Feb 08, 2008
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  
   
Feb 06, 2008
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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