Project Honey Pot tried to make last week their’s by having a significant spam announcement each day last week.
On Monday they announced a QuickLinks feature to allow anyone to participate in Project Honey Pot. Quicklinks are for people who don’t have administrator access to their webserver. You hide the link on a web page (such as in a one pixel image). Spam robots that are searching websites for email addresses follow the link and end up in the honeypot.
Tuesday brought an announcement that Project Honey Pot is now tracking comment spammers. No change to existing Honeypots are needed, they’ve modified things on their end.
On Wednesday they announced the availability of http:BL. This is a service that allows you to use the data collected by Project Honey Pot to keep malicious robots off your server. An API and a Apache 2 module are available.
Friday brought the last annoucement of a free service to allow you to monitor your IP space. You configure the montor with the IP ranges you control and Project Honey Pot will tell you if any of them get hijacked by spammers.
Project Honey Pot 5 Days of News
Project Honey Pot tried to make last week their’s by having a significant spam announcement each day last week.
On Monday they announced a QuickLinks feature to allow anyone to participate in Project Honey Pot. Quicklinks are for people who don’t have administrator access to their webserver. You hide the link on a web page (such as in a one pixel image). Spam robots that are searching websites for email addresses follow the link and end up in the honeypot.
Tuesday brought an announcement that Project Honey Pot is now tracking comment spammers. No change to existing Honeypots are needed, they’ve modified things on their end.
On Wednesday they announced the availability of http:BL. This is a service that allows you to use the data collected by Project Honey Pot to keep malicious robots off your server. An API and a Apache 2 module are available.
On Thursday it was an announcement about a $1B lawsuit they filed against spammers. You can see a copy of the compaint here (pdf). This one got talked about in the press.
Friday brought the last annoucement of a free service to allow you to monitor your IP space. You configure the montor with the IP ranges you control and Project Honey Pot will tell you if any of them get hijacked by spammers.
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