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Signup Best Practices: Banning Bots and NHI

Today I’m focusing on email signup form best practices, or: how to keep the crap out of your list. You might think that nothing bad will ever happen to you, but it will. Even on the signup form for my tiny niche Spam Resource newsletter list, even on the signup form for my friend’s now-closed jazz club, people seemed to be using scripts to feed email addresses to them on the regular. Not re…
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Here's why you need CAPTCHA

I'm only a couple hours into my day today and so far I've received three different emails from three completely different senders, each inviting me to go look at the same exciting erotic webcam site. Each email message came from what I think is a legitimate sender -- th…

Beware the Email Bomb

I had a customer ask me yesterday, why is their ESP trying to force them to implement CAPTCHA on their signup forms? They're not spammers. Well, unfortunately, it's usually because of stuff like this: As Webbula's Jenna Devinney explains , bad guys can easily find a…

Yikes! Cyber-Criminals Increasingly Using CAPTCHA Walls in Phishing Attacks

From Infosecurity Magazine: "New research from Barracuda Networks has revealed that cyber-criminals are increasingly using official reCAPTCHA walls to disguise malicious content from email security systems and trick unsuspecting users."   Read more here . Meaning, i…

PSA: Time to update your ReCAPTCHA

Google's "ReCAPTCHA" API-based user validation process is very popular. So popular, that internet users are running into warnings here and there on the web, suggesting that it's about to stop working on some websites. The reason? The V1 version is deprecated…