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| 2010-01-12 |
| We've had a bad boy posting spam to comments on an article from last month. There are now 26,000 of them. I've patched one hole that I've found, but there's obviously another one there, too. That's part of what's been slowing the system down. Other factors have been the Chinese hammering at the door with book attacks. I've banned about a dozen IP ranges and I'm not done yet. I apologize for the slowdown. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #21 Google ' may end China operation ' Internet giant Google says it may end in China after hackers targeted Chinese human rights activists e-mail accounts ! ' : Source : BBC |
| Posted by: JohnStansfield8826 2010-01-12 23:53 |
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| Posted by: Flusons Stalin3209 2010-01-12 23:34 |
| #19 I'll have to. But I'm beat to death at the moment. I'll do it tomorrow morning, unless work's on fire... |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 22:51 |
| #18 Can you change the database backend so that it only recognizes comments to articles posted in the current date? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-12 22:45 |
| #17 I'm going to leave the setup the way it is overnight. I'll give our normal configuration another try in the morning. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 22:15 |
| #16 but then...I'm a soft touch |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-12 21:53 |
| #15 Fred? What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-12 21:52 |
| #14 Fred, a friend of mine is deeply involved in Wares and hacker schtuff. One thing he did that has worked in the past is to write up a bunch of code (several pages of it), set it to report to ONE IP address, compiled it, and every time that site tried to get into his system, the garbage code would be sent back, addressed to the base directory of the offending IP. It's not a nice thing to do, but it's probably better than nuking them. Of course, if some of this crap is originating in Iran, nuke away. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-01-12 21:51 |
| #13 I'm not sure I'm going to be able to fix their wagons. They seem to have a copy of the comments data entry page for just the one date. I can change all the code I want and it's not going to have an effect on their clone. I'm afraid I'm going to have to write a trigger that will delete any comments posted for that day. I hate hard-coding crap like that... |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 21:36 |
| #12 thx Fred for your patience and perseverance |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-01-12 21:02 |
| #11 Sorry. The bot's still working us. I'm going to switch us back to emergency mode while I look at the code. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 20:42 |
| #10 We're back to our normal configuration. If things get terrible, try 207.114.86.29... |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 20:27 |
| #9 That'll look impressive on a resume. "Beat Chinese Army". I'd notice that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-12 20:06 |
| #8 I'm assuming this is a military exercise. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 20:02 |
| #7 Funny how the ChiComs can't keep their folks from attacking sites beyond the Great Firewall, huh? IIRC, hacking is officially a capital crime in China. Also IIUC, much of it is carried out by the military there. |
| Posted by: lotp 2010-01-12 19:57 |
| #6 China doesn't need a great firewall, we'll wind up making one for them. Not disagreeing with your actions, just thinking they're highly ironic. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-01-12 19:18 |
| #5 I think I've got that "download" thing fixed now. I'm busy banning IP addresses, most of them from China, right now. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 19:13 |
| #4 I got the same thing as well, came in via :81 |
| Posted by: IG-88 2010-01-12 18:57 |
| #3 At this moment clicking on the basic rantburg address gives a message to download something, which I bypassed by going the :8080 route. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-01-12 18:17 |
| #2 Funny how the ChiComs can't keep their folks from attacking sites beyond the Great Firewall, huh? Well, not funny funny. Funny weird. |
| Posted by: mojo 2010-01-12 15:28 |
| #1 Testing to make sure I didn't break comments patching the hole. |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-01-12 15:26 |