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

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Message-ID: <28f529ba0709251327vae9dbbdxee7238c425c16af1@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:27:57 -0700
From: blah <blah@...kogre.com>
To: "Steve Ragan" <sragan@...y.rr.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: CN spam links in Google and Yahoo

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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