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Blekko illustrates the difficulty in fighting SEO spam

03

Aug

2011

Blekko is the new search engine in the block. It launched in November 2010, raised about $24 million and received a fair bit of press in start-up and tech blogs. Blekko’s promise is to provide high quality search results. They work on a smaller index of around 3 billion pages (~46 billions for Google). Blekko […]

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Spammers and compromised accounts

14

Jul

2011

Our friends at Commtouch have blogged about something that is no surprise – spammers using compromised accounts vs. bots (their latest threat report is quite good and worth reading btw). While compromised email accounts (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc.) are not new, there is a little more to it: There was a massive takedown of a […]

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yahoolink.php / DreamHost hack

27

Jun

2011

It appears that a lot of DreamHost (New Dream Network LLC) sites have been hacked with malicious pages added to them. The issue impacts multiple servers at different DreamHost datacenters. Some sample IPs with infected sites include:67.205.1.63 67.205.3.51 67.205.3.23069.163.168.135 69.163.169.247 69.163.181.205 69.163.184.8675.119.217.8 Given that the hacked pages all contain the string yahoolink.php then it is […]

Category Security Written by Dynamoo's Blog 0 Comments

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