Flutterby™! : status update

status update

2011-01-27 16:26:18.899299+01 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

Anyone else running MediaWiki sites get attacked hard by spammers last night? Huge hits on PetalumaOpen.com and Flutterby.net...

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#Comment Re: made: 2011-01-27 16:57:41.046825+01 by: Mark A. Hershberger

My Status response: There were some complaints on #mediawiki earlier this week. Are you using AbuseFilter or the like?

#Comment Re: made: 2011-01-27 18:06:31.595926+01 by: TheSHAD0W

A forum I run (phpbb, not MediaWiki) got hit badly a couple of days ago, badly enough that I disabled new users and posts. I think somebody made a breakthrough on recaptcha.

#Comment Re: made: 2011-01-27 18:12:25.054811+01 by: Dan Lyke

And as I responded to Mark on twitter: No on AbuseFilter. I've had a few drive-bys in the past, but last night I had something like 50 new users on both MediaWiki sites I admin, and a whole lot of new pages. Need to hack the code so that the default on the user ban page is "infinite".

#Comment Re: made: 2011-01-27 20:59:57.688572+01 by: Dan Lyke

Okay, AntiSpoof and AbuseFilter installed.

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