So it seems Ann Elisabeth aka Spanhuntress has given up spam hunting and her old domain - and an SEO person picked it up instead (oh, the irony). So, I strongly suggest you do what I just did: Remove all links to spamhuntress dot com from your site. Don't give that scumbag any link juice.

Spam on Twitter is a topic that I don't want to get into (let's just say that if you spam me on Twitter, I will report you). But here's one that just came up for one of my searches. It was interesting in that it pointed to older revisions in a Wiki.

Good news of the day: Slashdot (and others) report that Scam-linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out.

I haven't been following their activities recently, since I had all their IP addresses blocked anyway. Oh, and I'm sure we'll hear from them again ...

I ranted about those stupid script kiddies and their fruitless yet annoying attempts to exploit something that isn't there before. Of course that didn't change a thing - we're still seeing more than 20% of the requests on our webserver being inclusion attempts.

A new variation, however, is the use of ftp: links for the inclusion attempt: read more

For the last 2 or 3 days, someone has been sending out spam emails with faked email addresses @project.geeklog.net. Nothing new here, happens all the time, and if you own a domain, it'll happen to you eventually. On my own domains, I simply forward the catchall to a GMail account (hey, finally something to fill up those 6 GB!). On geeklog.net, however, we can't do that for various reasons. And so we're drowning in bounces now. read more