{"id":602,"date":"2007-05-09T17:11:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T01:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=602"},"modified":"2007-05-27T00:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T08:43:00","slug":"boise-state-university-educational-technology-website-exploited-for-affiliate-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Boise State University Educational Technology 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>All right.  We probably underestimated the number.  It&#8217;s not just &#8220;2 or 3.&#8221;  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.<\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_boisestate_educational_technology\/boisestate_educational_technology.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_boisestate_educational_technology\/boisestate_educational_technology.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"164\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nScreenshot from edtech.boisestate.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_boisestate_educational_technology\/affiliate_spam_1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_boisestate_educational_technology\/affiliate_spam_1.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_boisestate_educational_technology\/affiliate_spam_2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/affiliate_spam\/050907_boisestate_educational_technology\/affiliate_spam_2.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"169\" alt=\"affiliate spam\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right. We probably underestimated the number. It&#8217;s not just &#8220;2 or 3.&#8221; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=602\">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-602","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\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}