Blog Spam: A Review
Adam Thomason · 2007
Blogs are becoming an increasingly popular target for spammers. The existence of multiple vectors for spam injection, the potential of reaching many eyeballs with a single spam, and limited deployment of anti-spam technologies has led to a sustained increase in the volume and sophistication of attacks. This paper reviews the current state of spam in the blogosphere at large and in particular as seen at TypePad, a major hosted blog service. Furthermore the effectiveness of two popular open-source email antispam programs at classifying blog comment spam is evaluated. 1