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Trackback spam abuse and prevention

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ConferenceCloud Computing Security Workshop
AuthorsElie Bursztein , Peifung E. Lam , John C. Mitchell
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@inproceedings{ BURSZTEIN2009TRACKBACK,title = {Trackback spam abuse and prevention},author = {"Elie, Bursztein" and "Peifung E., Lam" and "John C., Mitchell"},booktitle = {Cloud Computing Security Workshop},year = {2009},organization = {ACM}}

Contemporary blogs receive comments and TrackBacks, which result in cross-references between blogs. We conducted a longitudinal study of TrackBack spam, collecting and analyzing almost 10 million samples from a massive spam campaign over a one-year period. Unlike common delivery of email spam, the spammers did not use bots, but took advantage of an official Chinese site as a relay. Based on our analysis of TrackBack misuse found in the wild, we propose an authenticated TrackBack mechanism that defends against TrackBack spam even if attackers use a very large number of different source addresses and generate unique URLs for each TrackBack blog.

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