{"id":599,"date":"2007-05-09T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T00:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=599"},"modified":"2008-07-11T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:35:54","slug":"university-of-north-carolina-facultystaff-website-exploited-for-affiliate-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=599","title":{"rendered":"University of North Carolina Asheville Faculty\/Staff Website Exploited for Affiliate Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/anti-spam\/anti-spam.jpg\" alt=\"anti spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day.  A new victim is University of North Carolina &#8211; Asheville (hereafter, UNCA).  UNCA allocates one subdomain (facstaff.unca.edu) to its faculty and staff.  And an affiliate spam group exploited this subdomain with possibly hundreds of affiliate spam pages.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Affiliate spam criminals advertise anything ranging from online prescription drug stores to porn websites.  Their goal is just one.  They just want to earn commissions.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you stop affiliate spam criminals from coming back to your website?  Read &#8216;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/anti-spam.html\">To stop spam<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; to learn how to stop spam exploitations.<\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_unc_asheville\/unc_asheville.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_unc_asheville\/unc_asheville.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot from www.unca.edu<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_unc_asheville\/unca_affiliate_affiliate_spam.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_unc_asheville\/unca_affiliate_affiliate_spam.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nClick on the button to see how University of North Carolina Asheville Faculty\/Staff website is exploited. <a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_unc_asheville\/unca_affiliate_affiliate_spam.mov\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mhvt.net\/quicktime\/eng\/graphics\/button.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" alt=\"VTC\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day. A new victim is University of North Carolina &#8211; Asheville (hereafter, UNCA). UNCA allocates one subdomain (facstaff.unca.edu) to its faculty and staff. And an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}