Sophos has cautioned blog owners & website administrators against on the rise threat of trackback spam, right after reports that reveals that a Filipino online news service, known as www.newsbreak.com.ph, detected more than 27,000 links to adult webpages had been were lurking on its website. Sophos maintains that newsbreak.com was attacked by a host of links to the illegitimate websites sent by anonymous spammers. Finding the nasty links on its site, the website immediately came to suspend the trackback feature of its site, and asked users to log on ahead of posting any comments.
Sophos experts make a note of trackbacks, which are a technology utilized to let blog writers keep an eye on who has visited and provided links to their postings. The system also claims to allow readers to with no trouble find web postings connected to the subject matter. Nevertheless, it is also vulnerable to abuse from spammers, who are capable of getting themselves connected automatically using trackbacks to postings on legal blogs, hoping to direct browsers to their own sites. Additionally, trackback spamming is claimed to engulf a blog server, turning it comparable with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
