Businesses use website forms for capturing leads, support requests, general inquiries, and many other useful purposes. Without the proper precautions, however, junk form submissions from malicious programs (e.g. spam-bots) can really cause problems.

Junk form submissions—another form of “spam”—are a time-wasting nuisance. Even with junk mail filters in place, they can increase the chances of a legitimate email being overlooked due to the “white noise” that they create. They can even be used to exploit your website to promote the spam products we’ve all seen: “hot” stock market tips, male enhancement pills, prescription drugs, and so on. In the most extreme cases, these tactics can be used to compromise the security of your website and data. (more…)