2009

Moderation Queue · The official Akismet blog

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A spammer’s playground

Tom Lee writes at Manifest Destiny about his discovery that spammers were abusing a full-text RSS tool he developed. The self-described black-hat search engine optimization crowd — the folks who assemble sites peppered with ads that are designed to attract search engine traffic, aka “link farms” — had been using my script to steal other […]

by WordPress.com Special Projects Team

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Captcha conversion conundrum

by Akismet Engineering

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New plugin version 2.2.6

by Akismet Engineering

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New plugin version 2.2.5

by Akismet Engineering

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Akismet is up.

by Akismet Engineering

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FTC takes down a spam provider

by Akismet Engineering

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New plugin version 2.2.4

by Akismet Engineering

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WordPress bug

by Akismet Engineering