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Category Archives: hacking
Anatomy of a scam
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
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eBay ratings booster
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
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Attack of the Bots
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
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