{"id":1848,"date":"2019-04-15T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2019-04-16T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T08:34:36","slug":"technical-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/technical-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"The new era of spam? Technical-related comments that defeat anti-spam filters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the tasks of every blogger is to update the anti-spam filters (a WordPress plugin in my case, <a href=\"https:\/\/akismet.com\/\">akismet<\/a>), read the comments in quarantine and either approve them, delete them or mark them as spam (to that the anti-spam plugin can enrich the spam detection algorithms).<\/p>\n<p>So far, the main factor to me to decide to approve or not, is to read the content of the message and find it appropriate or not for the blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Until today.<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago I have written this blog post about diagnosing problems in deleting the Audit Trail in Oracle 12c:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"2IEAciOAmt\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/clean_audit_trail-not-working-12c\/\">DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.CLEAN_AUDIT_TRAIL not working on 12c? Here&#8217;s why&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.CLEAN_AUDIT_TRAIL not working on 12c? Here&#8217;s why&#8230;&#8221; &#8212; DBA survival BLOG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/clean_audit_trail-not-working-12c\/embed\/#?secret=j73hYUv809#?secret=2IEAciOAmt\" data-secret=\"2IEAciOAmt\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week I have got this comment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/smart-spam-audit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1849\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/smart-spam-audit.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/smart-spam-audit.png 699w, https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/smart-spam-audit-300x90.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/smart-spam-audit-500x149.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Technical. Talking about Oracle Audit (which is relevant to my blog post) and with\u00a0 technical details that only an Oracle professional might know.<\/p>\n<p>So I have approved it and read my blog post again to find a proper answer.<\/p>\n<p>Except that my blog post was not talking about Unified Audit, relink of binaries or exports!<\/p>\n<p>I have realized then that the &#8220;link&#8221; of the blogger was in fact a website selling sex toys&#8230; (yeah, writing this here will bring even more spam&#8230; I take the risk \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n<p>So where does it come from? Actually, the comment has been copied from another blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/petesdbablog.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/20\/12c-new-feature-unified-auditing\/\">https:\/\/petesdbablog.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/20\/12c-new-feature-unified-auditing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of spam (maybe it exists since a while? I am not a spam expert).<\/p>\n<p>The spammer (bot?) copies technical comments from blog posts with similar keywords and just changes the name and the link of the author.<\/p>\n<p>Beware, bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Ludo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the tasks of every blogger is to update the anti-spam filters (a WordPress plugin in my case, akismet), read the comments in quarantine and either approve them, delete them or mark them as spam (to that the anti-spam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/technical-spam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1854,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/1854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludovicocaldara.net\/dba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}