Website security software company Websense has acquired Defensio, a comment spam blocker used by blogs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Defensio competes with Akismet, the spam blocker that comes with Wordpress, and Mollom. One of Defensio’s features is that it can sort blocked comments by spamminess and also offers an API for use on Websites other than blogs.
Websense will incorporate Defensio into its
The company recently used Defensio technology to detect malicious hackers on BarackObama.com. Moreover, Websense claims to have research showing that:
. . . more than 95 percent of all Web posts on blogs, forums and other sites are unwanted content such as spam and malicious content. Additionally, more than 70 percent of all Web spam and unwanted content is hosted on legitimate sites that allow user-generated content.
That sounds inflated to me, but comment spam definitely is a problem that needs to be squashed. So the more technologies out there trying to squash it, the better.
I actually know the guy who ran the company, so this is great news! Congratulations!
Couldnt live without Aksimet
Nice job neighbours !
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Looks like a new way to spam is to randomly duplicate an existing comment and tag on a random link !
Never heard of Defensio, but absolutely love the name.
Having that said, Aksimet is freaking incredible.
locator dude is not gonna like this.
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Nice job neighbours !
It is Mollom, not Mollum.
For those of you that don’t know this already… the founder, Carl is one of the most generous and hard working people you’ll meet. Totally deserving of any success that comes his way IMHO.
Congrats Carl!
I’m proud of you Montreal brothers !!!!! I guess the montreal tech scene will now get more attention !!!
congrats !
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