Digg Social News website and it's open source clone Pligg usually have very little in common bar the voting concept, Digg has had investment of around $11.3 Million whilst pligg has near to no investment. One thing they do have...

Author: Lincoln on July 19th, 2008

Category: Web News

Tags: digg, digg spam, spam, spammers, submission spam

We already know from a previous article i wrote about a pycurl vulnerability that pligg is a heaven for spammers, it seems that the country of India is becoming a particular nuisance for user submitted spam though. We thought it...

Author: Lincoln on May 31st, 2008

Category: Pligg

Tags: Pligg, pligg spam, spam blocking, spammers

You probably thought pligg was getting better at dealing with spam entries, well you would be wrong pligg sites are a heaven for spammers and the developers haven’t even attempted the simple task in v9.9.0 of adding email verification to...

Author: Lincoln on March 28th, 2008

Category: Pligg

Tags: askimet, Pligg, pligg spam, PyCurl, spammers