Let there be botnets. - SPAM - Computer - Security
Posted on: 2009-05-09 12:53:18

Last night, right as I was about to pass out, I got the familiar click from my phone telling me I got a text message. I picked it up, read it, saw that it was comment spam on this page (because every comment gets forwarded to me via text message), deleted it, and layed back down. About 30 seconds later, I got another one, which I expected. I don't know why, but everytime one gets through, two more tend to follow. So I picked up my phone only to see there were 7 messages waiting to be read. As I was reading the message "You have 7 messages." my phone clicked again...up to 9 now. I sighed and set the phone down. After a couple of more clicks I had to do something. I got up, turned captchas on for all the posts, and set about deleting messages. I checked the log and between 3:38am and 3:47am, I had 114 attempts to comment on my page. 14 of those went through. And these attempts came from about 50 different ipaddresses. It seems we are getting some botnet love.

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It is not paranoia. - Misc - Security
Posted on: 2006-12-21 02:25:15

I am not sure about the rest of my listeners, but we still have a little buying left to do for the Christmas season. We have presents for a couple of people to get as well as some stuff for the apartment. Buying things always intrigues me. It is not so much the act of buying or looking for what I am going to buy or even the money spent on said items, it is the information passed while it is happening. All the little things that can be observed and categorized. Working at Wal-mart for so many years did this to me, but I can't say that I mind. It is honestly one of the better things I garnered from the place.

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