ITS has begun enabling new, proactive anti-spam and anti-phishing email filters intended to improve the filtering of unsolicited and unwanted messages, by leveraging external reputation-based lists of email servers that have been flagged for sending spam and/or malicious email. We’ve had the new filters in “Tag” mode since October 2014, so we’re confident that they […]…Continue Reading Improved Filtering of SPAM and Phishing Email
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Looking back at comment-spam in WordPress
In February 2012 we started noticing a large influx of new comment-spam coming into our sites.middlebury.edu WordPress system that the built-in anti-spam plugins weren’t able to handle. To combat this annoying plague we created a new plugin that instantly killed … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Looking back at comment-spam in WordPress
Reduced comment spam in blogs
During the past few months we have been seeing an increased amount of comment spam coming into WordPress (sites.middlebury.edu) that follows a distinctive pattern: the comment text is useless, but unoffensive and contains no links itself, while the Comment Author … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Reduced comment spam in blogs
Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No.
I’ve received this question from several people now. Below are two videos from Matt Cutts who works on Google’s Webspam team explaining how tagging content mostly does not affect their search results. This also means that tagging largely will not … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Does tagging content make it easier to find with search? No.
PCI and Blocked Email Messages
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS v2.0) is a standard that has been accepted by all major credit card companies and most credit providers. It is a standard that we must abide by if we are to … Continue reading →…Continue Reading PCI and Blocked Email Messages