http://blog.bbprotection.net The road to launching a revolutionary anti-spam service Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:21:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First of all I'm going to start with an apology; sorry for utterly failing in my duty to keep the dust off this place and keep it updated. I'm happy to report that we are still alive and kicking despite what the spammers may claim ;-) . Unfortunately as with many ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2009/07/18/were-still-here/ An interesting report by ICF International and McAfee has been released today about spam and CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. According to the report over 62 trillion spam emails are sent each year, and dealing with these additional emails results in an extra 17 million tons of CO2 being released ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2009/04/16/spam-killing-our-planet-literally/ A quick follow up to last month's blog post where we discussed CAPTCHAs, how they work as well as benefits and drawbacks of using them. It appears that YUNiTi, a social networking site, has been working on a new style of CAPTCHA based on 3D images. Three 3D images are shown ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2009/03/30/3d-captchas-have-arrived/ As you may be aware following a recent increase in the amount of spam hitting phpBB3 boards, the default CAPTCHA used by phpBB3 has been "cracked". In this post we will be looking at CAPTCHA technology; both in terms of why it is good and why it is also somewhat ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2009/02/25/phpbb3-captcha-cracked/ Want to contribute to bbProtection but don't know how to? If you have a board online or are running a honey pot system we want to hear from you... We are currently looking to build up a team of board owners who are happy to share their views, experiences and possibly ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2009/01/22/calling-board-owners-bbprotection-needs-you/ The whole bbProtection team wishes all visitors to this blog a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Hopefully the New Year will bring a new method of protecting your bulletin boards from spammers :-D . http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/12/25/merry-christmas/ This entry has been cross-posted from my own personal blog. Those of you who are following the bbProtection project may also find this piece of news useful. I personally like the work that Dave is doing to ensure the continued success of phpBB2 and thus we will more than likely ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/12/09/phpbb2-refugees-launches/ The true cost of spam can be hard to quantify. There is the cost of the time spent cleaning up spam, which I recently wrote about on another blog. (In that post I determined that a few simple anti-spam measures had saved me $20,000 worth of time after just over ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/12/05/how-much-does-spam-cost/ If you are wondering why the idea of bbProtection was conceived then this is the post for you. Dave and I have been running some honeypots to catch spammers, their trends and their general behaviour for a few months now and its time to give a general idea on how ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/11/23/just-how-big-is-the-spam-problem-10000-posts-and-counting/ One of many podcasts that I currently subscribe to is the Geek News Central podcast by Todd Cochrane, which runs alongside his successful site at geeknewscentral.com. I noticed a post by him citing a new type of comment spam that he and others had started to see happening on blogs that ... http://blog.bbprotection.net/2008/11/01/new-style-of-comment-spam/