Some ten days ago, we reported that Michigan State University’s Laboratory for Instructional Technology in Education (LITE) was exploited for pharmacy spam. And we are today reporting that an affiliate spam group has exploited forum website called Web Wiz Forums, which is run by College of Education at Michigan State University. Continue reading
| People are now very much aware that Google-owned Blogger hosts a lot of porn websites. We passed them a list of 25 porn websites hosted there twice the other day. And we keep getting more and more list. So we got tired and decided not to pass a list to Blogger any more. Then, today, a porn spam group passed us a list of 98 porn websites hosted at Blogger. We checked out several of them. Some of those porn websites have already been taken down. But a majority of them are still active. For example, we checked out the one that is highlighted in the list shown to the right. And this porn website is active. |  |
University of Missouri System announced in May 8 that its computer database has been exploited. The released information on its website says that the intruder may have stolen the names and social security numbers of as many as 22,396 UM system employees and current and former students at Columbia campus. Continue reading
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Sobonito Investments was sued by Federal Trade Commission in 2005 for wrongful use of affiliates to advertise its websites with pornographic images. The company settled after sued by FTC. But Sobonito Investments-owned ImLive shows no sign that they will stop hiring affiliate spammers to advertise its website. Continue reading
| All right. We probably underestimated the number. It’s not just “2 or 3.” Nowadays, 5 or 6 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day. Another victim hit by affiliate spam is the website of Boise State University Educational Technology. Educational Technology has its own subdomain at edtech.boisestate.edu, and at least one of the subdirectories there appears to contain a number of affiliate spam pages. |  Screenshot from edtech.boisestate.edu |