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
BlogEngage a social bookmarking website dedicated to bloggers and their topics would seem to have had their defenses down and become the target of an Autopligg bot attack. The weakness is that BlogEngage are using the standard pligg captcha method...
Author: Lincoln on October 23rd, 2008
Category: Pligg, Pligg Sites
Tags: autopligg, blogengage, bypass captcha, Pligg, spam
Over the last several weeks Informed Networker has worked in conjunction with dollars5 (a great outsourced development firm) to rewrite the Akismet Anti-Spam module for Social Web CMS. Informed Networker has released a beta version of what is deemed the...
Author: davemackey on September 13th, 2008
Category: Pligg Modules
Tags: akismet, anti-spam, beta, dollars5, free, informed networker, module, Pligg, spam
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
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
Over the past few weeks many pligg based webmasters have been voicing their concern’s over massive spam attacks on their user registrations and comments, some pligg sites have seen 100’s of users registered in a short period of time and...
Author: Lincoln on December 13th, 2007
Category: Pligg
Tags: hackers, Pligg, PyCurl, security vulnerability, spam