{"id":193,"date":"2006-11-03T12:33:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=193"},"modified":"2006-11-03T12:33:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T16:33:58","slug":"bot-nets-go-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/11\/03\/bot-nets-go-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Bot nets go mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/news\/11420?ref=rss\">Bot nets likely behind jump in spam<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The more I looked at the spam problems I was experiencing, the more I noticed <a href=\"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=190\">my initial theory<\/a> was wrong.  The same spam posts were coming in from everywhere from Asia, to Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South America.  Blocking IP space isn&#8217;t entirely effective either.  I&#8217;ve already got some ideas for real solutions I can implement on my end, but what about the source?  Vulnerable machines are at the heart of the issue.  Automatic updating has helped, but obviously falls far short of a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bot nets likely behind jump in spam The more I looked at the spam problems I was experiencing, the more I noticed my initial theory was wrong. The same spam posts were coming in from everywhere from Asia, to Africa, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2006\/11\/03\/bot-nets-go-mainstream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}