If you run a weblog, one of many issues you end up having to take care of is remark spam.
Typically it is going to be folks attempting to advertise a service that can allow you to cheat at writing essays…
…or promote an internet pharmacy…
…or good old style porn.
You anticipate to have undesirable feedback like this submitted to your weblog, and a great anti-spam plugin (I exploit Akismet) routinely filters them, which means you don’t need to waste hours every day marking them individually as spam.
However some spam does typically get by means of. Take this, as an example:
What’s uncommon about this piece of remark spam, is that it’s not shilling dodgy medicines, an essay-writing service, or foot fetish movies, however an internet site from EC-Council, a “reputable” cybersecurity organisation.
Sure, somebody has gone to the trouble of discovering a weblog publish the place I wrote about how I used to be talking at an occasion in Helsinki, and used that as an excuse to advertise one among EC-Council’s personal companies: the so-called EC-Council College.
EC-Council College claims to be “a premier establishment of upper studying that focuses on cybersecurity applied sciences, enabling its graduates to acquire superior cyber skillsets.” Don’t be fooled by its slick advertising and marketing video (I gained’t hyperlink to it right here, why ought to I give them the visitors?) displaying off what’s introduced because the college campus. EC-Council College is completely on-line.
EC-Council itself runs a Licensed Moral Hacker programme, so you’d anticipate it to behave ethically – proper? It could actually’t presumably have paid somebody to spice up its web optimization rankings by posting spam on cybersecurity blogs… can it?
Sadly, EC-Council hasn’t coated itself in glory up to now with accusations of sexism, “shady practices”, and plagiarism, in addition to fairly embarrassingly spreading the Angler ransomware and having its web site defaced with a picture of Edward Snowden’s passport.
I can’t inform you to not search moral hacking certification from EC-Council. However I can counsel that in case you are in search of an internet college to spice up your cybersecurity profession, you don’t accept an outfit that has confirmed itself to be of questionable ethics and completely clueless.
I informed EC-Council concerning the remark spam left selling their web site yesterday. It hasn’t responded.
Perhaps I ought to wait till a reply is submitted by way of the feedback part beneath… presumably with a hyperlink to one among its web sites.
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