Category Archives: hacking

Anatomy of a scam

Posted on April 1, 2007 by

A new report from Microsoft (didn’t know they did these kinds of interesting reports) and UC Davis outlines the ways in which web spammers are operationally organized (NYT had a review on the report as well). Its an interesting albeit … Continue reading →

Posted in click-fraud, hacking | 1 Comment

eBay ratings booster

Posted on December 7, 2006 by

I came across this fascinating piece on Auctionbyte, about how some users are gaming the eBay rating system. Many eBay users are familiar with sellers who use a low-price/high-shipping strategy to manipulate eBay search results. But less well known is … Continue reading →

Posted in eBay, hacking, Reputation, Trust | Leave a comment

Attack of the Bots

Posted on November 5, 2006 by

Check out the great article in the wired magazine, regarding the power and menace of the bots and their controllers: AT FIRST, IT LOOKED LIKE typical network congestion. So the system administrators weren’t too concerned when TypePad blogs and LiveJournal … Continue reading →

Posted in Denial of Service Attack, hacking, Identity | 1 Comment