full-disclosure - Re: CN spam links in Google and Yahoo

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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:17:52 -0700
From: "James Matthews" <nytrokiss@...il.com>
To: blah <blah@...kogre.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: CN spam links in Google and Yahoo

If you run a blog you can see easily why these sites are indexed! I get
hundreds of spam comments from them!

On 9/25/07, blah <blah@...kogre.com> wrote:
>
> Read your SANS diary daily!
>
> http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3408
>
> Spammers feeling lucky with Google
> Published: 2007-09-21,
> Last Updated: 2007-09-21 07:31:49 UTC
> by Bojan Zdrnja (Version: 2)
>
> For quite some time spammers have been trying to hide links advertised
> in their e-mails. The main reason for this is probably increasing
> effectiveness of various realtime blocklists, such as SURBL. For those
> that aren't familiar with SURBL (http://www.surbl.org), it's an RBL
> that lists list URIs found in spam e-mails. In other words, instead of
> listing spam zombies or relays, RBLs like SURBLs list sites that are
> referenced in advertised spams.
>
> <SNIP - you get the idea - or click above>
>
>
>
> On 9/25/07, Steve Ragan <sragan@...y.rr.com> wrote:
> > http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20070924/tc_zd/215816
> >
> > I've seen this a lot lately, and I don't see how these sites were
> allowed.
> > Is there anyone here who can shed some light on this?
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Excerpt:
> >
> > "A reader, Courtney Cox (no relation to the actress), recently pointed
> out
> > to me that the top results of recent complex Google searches turned out
> to
> > be inane Chinese sites that were not even parking sites, just an
> assortment
> > of keywords that somehow got indexed and brought to the top of the
> results
> > list. After seeing a few of these sites, I have to wonder what's going
> on.
> > Is it sabotage?"
> >
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