Blog Spamming

September 15, 2005

Every once in a while, I will get a malicious trackback ping to a single page. I receive an email alert showing the ping, sign in to the MovableType admin area, ban the IP and then delete the trackback. These are normally clever marketers trying to get attention.

The most recent occurrence appears to have been to get my attention. It was a porn site that pinged as many of our entries as they had sub-domains...about 36 of them. The odd thing about this attack was that the trackback URL was our blog. They got my attention...were banned and deleted. The sad thing is that it is relatively cheap to attack, cover and then move somewhere else.

This medium is great but it is subject to all sorts of devious behavior by those that are simply hacking for the fun of it or are seriously attempting to get attention. Email spam spawned a whole new industry of anti-spam. As the blogging community grows we will enable yet another growth industry of tools to protect our blogs. This malicious behavior is costing us millions if not hundreds of million dollars annually for protection.

Do we really have to start locking our blog doors at night and installing alarm systems?

It makes me want to...

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