News site hit by trackback spam
News A Trackback is a form of link used on news sites and blogs to identify referrer sites. To track back, the site needs a referrer — the URL that an http look-up is supposed to be coming from — and a user agent — an identifier for a piece of software...
[March 21, 2007, 14:10]
Google enhances search for Firefox users
News When documents are prefetched an 'x-moz: prefetch' header is sent with the request and the referrer header will match the Google search results page," said Bishop. Google has added a new feature to its search engine that allows Firefox users to...
[March 31, 2005, 17:40]
Political site leaves backdoor open
News Web site logs usually retain the "referrer link," which points back to the last page a visitor browsed. Rock the Vote, a grassroots movement that aims to convince younger Americans to vote, accidentally left its Web site publishing tools accessible...
[August 25, 2004, 10:05]
