Re: Form SPAM?

[Kevin Wilcox <wilcoxkm () APPSTATE EDU>]

2009/12/8 Pete Hickey <pete () shadows uottawa ca>:

> It's the old take advantage of the bug in the web-feedback software.  Just include
> it in your site, and users can give feedback to the webmaster.  Manipulating the
> parms lets one send to any address through this.

Indeed. And if it's sufficiently automated, it's just a script that
trolls for some type of "submit" and hopes that the content makes its
way into a public site at your .edu so that their ranking goes up when
someone searches for nudes of Jennifer Aniston, Lindsay Lohan, Miley
Cyrus, Angelina Jolie, etc.

We have had a few incidents where site admins would leave anonymous
forum posts available and stuff like this shows up.

kmw

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