Hacker News: blackice

New comment by blackice in "Credit card fraud warning signs"

blackice — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 23:26:51 +0000

The website says to only look at really high values ( more than 0.99 ) and everything below 0.90 is "low risk".

New comment by blackice in "Credit card fraud warning signs"

blackice — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:29:28 +0000

Another easy & free thing you can use is proxy detection, sites like https://getipintel.net would beneficial in preventing fraud.

New comment by blackice in "How To Go Viral By Using Fake Reddit Likes"

blackice — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 05:16:19 +0000

Reddit should really try to proxy / VPN / Bot detection because I'm willing to bet the people on fiverr are using large proxy networks to achieve this.

New comment by blackice in "“Hello, (real) world” in PHP in 2017"

blackice — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 01:52:14 +0000

Satire to an extent but also somewhat true.

New comment by blackice in "Up to 48M Twitter accounts may be bots"

blackice — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:54:45 +0000

You can look for proxy / hosting IPs. These bots are most likely running on servers.

New comment by blackice in "Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless"

blackice — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:42:02 +0000

Try getIPIntel.net

New comment by blackice in "Google and Facebook ad traffic is 90% useless"

blackice — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 14:40:40 +0000

There are many traffic exchange sites that use automated software to click or view ads. Most of them run on server ips or they're using a proxy. http://getIPIntel.net is a free and useful service to combat bad / low quality traffic. Though to save you money, your advertiser needs to not bill you for automated traffic. It's unlikely that'll happen because the more views and clicks, the more money they'll get. You can still use GetIPIntel's api to help you pick which advertising company gives you legitimate traffic.

New comment by blackice in "Pokemon Go API"

blackice — Sun, 24 Jul 2016 15:29:31 +0000

One of the better ways to find these people using "unofficial" APIs is to look for VPN / hosting IPs. Running all of it on their home connection is very obvious so they'll branch out and let their bots run on servers 24x7. Based on the IP address and their account activity, I think it'll be a lot easier to catch botters or at least catch the big fish.

New comment by blackice in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

blackice — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 17:01:03 +0000

It's nice to see people doing well after posting their projects on HN. Perhaps I should share mine but I don't want to seem spammmy about it :/

New comment by blackice in "Giant bags of mostly water: Securing your IT infrastructure"

blackice — Sun, 08 May 2016 11:29:26 +0000

The slides mention IP reputation and a great free resource for that is http://GetIPIntel.net to make sure unexpected IPs don't connect to your services.

New comment by blackice in "Candy Japan hit with credit card fraud"

blackice — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 06:52:18 +0000

Something like a simple proxy / VPN IP detection should be used because I assume most of the "carders" don't use their home IPs. There are decent free solutions online like W I T C H and GetIPIntel.

New comment by blackice in "Ask HN: Who here would be interested in a free daily updated GeoIP database?"

blackice — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 04:46:11 +0000

I also recommend this service, been using it for awhile now and It's pretty accurate.