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TrackBack Spam: Abuse and Prevention

Posted on : 11-12-2009 | By : Elie Bursztein | In : Article, Publications

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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 official 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 different source addresses and generate unique URLs for each TrackBack blog.

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