Peaches Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 .EDU Space Filled with Adult Spam Security researchers from GFI Software warn that an increasignly large number of .edu websites are being abused to push adult spam because of their poor security and lack of oversight. Christopher Boyd a senior security researcher at GFI notes that a lot of .edu forums are being flooded with this sort of spam. Searching for adult-oriented terms in the .edu domain space on Google reveals entire pages of results, most of which are on discussion boards. Most of this seems to have kicked in since around the 4th or 5th of February, and there doesn't seem to be much in the way of spam control or preventative measures going on right now so please be careful if looking around your University forums, official or otherwise," Mr. Boyd says.He stresses that website owners need to take control of the situation immediately otherwise they risk loosing their audience if they keep endangering it and forcing it to surf through tens of spam threads just to locate one legit discussion. However, it's not only forums that have been abused. Among the search results one can also find what appear to be compromised websites. More details here: http://news.softpedi...am-184302.shtml Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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