TY - JOUR
AU - Mitchell, John C.
AB -  TrackBack Spam: Abuse and Prevention Elie Bursztein∗ Stanford University Peifung E. Lam* Stanford University John C. Mitchell* Stanford University elie@cs.stanford.edu p ‚am@cs.stanford.edu mitchell@cs.stanford.edu ABSTRACT Contemporary blogs receive comments and TrackBacks, which result in cross-references between blogs. We conducted a longitudinal study of TrackBack spam, collecting and analyzing almost 10 million samples from a massive spam campaign over a one-year period. Unlike common delivery of email spam, the spammers did not use bots, but took advantage of an o ƒcial Chinese site as a relay. Based on our analysis of TrackBack misuse found in the wild, we propose an authenticated TrackBack mechanism that defends against TrackBack spam even if attackers use a very large number of di €erent source addresses and generate unique URLs for each TrackBack blog. Since their emergence over a decade ago [17], blogs have become a major form of communication, with more than 184 million blogs read by more than 346 million readers in 2008 [16]. Along with widespread legitimate use for communicating information and opinions, blogs have naturally attracted two forms of spam (unwanted postings): comment spam and TrackBack spam. Comment spam is an extension of traditional email spam and can be mitigated by 
TI - TrackBack spam: abuse and prevention
DO - 10.1145/1655008.1655010
DA - 2009-11-13
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/trackback-spam-abuse-and-prevention-tkrp0ni9qy
DP - DeepDyve
ER -