{"id":601,"date":"2007-05-09T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T00:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=601"},"modified":"2007-05-27T00:43:20","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T08:43:20","slug":"ohio-state-university-college-of-education-website-exploited-for-affiliate-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State University College of Education 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=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>Nowadays, 2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day.  And an affiliate spam group exploited the website of College of Education at Ohio State University.  Ohio State&#8217;s College of Education has its own subdomain, and at least one of its subdirectories is exploited with possibly hundreds of affiliate spam pages.<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_ohio_state_university_spam\/college_of_education.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_ohio_state_university_spam\/college_of_education.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"164\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot from coe.ohio-state.edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>  <!--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<table width=\"440\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_ohio_state_university_spam\/ohio_state_university_spam_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_ohio_state_university_spam\/ohio_state_university_spam_1.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_ohio_state_university_spam\/ohio_state_university_spam_2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_ohio_state_university_spam\/ohio_state_university_spam_2.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays, 2 or 3 websites of American colleges and universities fall victims to affiliate spam every day. And an affiliate spam group exploited the website of College of Education at Ohio State University. Ohio State&#8217;s College of Education has its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=601\">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-601","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\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}