It is a method of submitting web forms with unwanted information.
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Classification of Spamming Attacks to Blogging Websites and Their Security Techniques
Rizwan Ur Rahman (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India), Rishu Verma (Jaypee University of Information Technology, India), Himani Bansal (Jaypee University, Solan, India), and Deepak Singh Tomar (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch058
Abstract
With the explosive expansion of information on the world wide web, search engines are becoming more significant in the day-to-day lives of humans. Even though a search engine generally gives huge number of results for certain query, the majority of the search engine users simply view the first few web pages in result lists. Consequently, the ranking position has become a most important concern of internet service providers. This article addresses the vulnerabilities, spamming attacks, and countermeasures in blogging sites. In the first part, the article explores the spamming types and detailed section on vulnerabilities. In the next part, an attack scenario of form spamming is presented, and defense approach is presented. Consequently, the aim of this article is to provide review of vulnerabilities, threats of spamming associated with blogging websites, and effective measures to counter them.