Last week we decided to run a live install of Pligg v1.0.0 RC5 as a test to see if the usual spammers would come to visit it, lo and behold we were not disappointed with around ten spam registrations per...
Author: Lincoln on May 25th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: Pligg, pligg spam, spam
IndianPad is a social news website targeted towards the Indian language based community and based upon the Pligg system is suffering badly from the creation of spammy user accounts. What do these accounts look like and why are thy being...
Author: Lincoln on April 26th, 2009
Category: Pligg
Tags: indianpad, Pligg, pligg spam, spam
After we revealed the existence of an Automated Pligg spam tool titled AutoPligg yesterday an good samaritan simply going by the name "sorry" contacted us. Your probably thinking what did this user called sorry have to say, well nothing really?....
Author: Lincoln on July 29th, 2008
Category: Pligg
Tags: auto pligg, autopligg, Pligg, pligg spam
If you have read any of our previous articles on Pligg Spam you will no doubt already be aware that Pligg has had more than it's fair share of spam related problems in the past. Pligg webmasters now face a...
Author: Lincoln on July 28th, 2008
Category: Pligg
Tags: auto pligg, autopligg, Pligg, pligg spam, pligg spam tool
Many times before here at Social CMS Buzz we have spoken about outstanding vulnerabilities within the Pligg CSM system related to spam attacks, it seems today DesignFloat.com has come under siege and is experiencing some nasty pligg spam related problems...
Author: Lincoln on June 6th, 2008
Category: Pligg
Tags: Design Float, designfloat, pligg spam, spam, spam attack
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...
Author: Lincoln on March 28th, 2008
Category: Pligg
Tags: askimet, Pligg, pligg spam, PyCurl, spammers
In the CMS world pligg has been long renowned for it’s ease to make spam comments and posts, up until now the Developers had done very little if nothing to tackle this problem. It would seem after post’s at the...
Author: Lincoln on December 11th, 2007
Category: Pligg Modules
Tags: module, Pligg, pligg askimet spam, pligg askimet spam module, pligg spam