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Let’s have a look at the contact form anti-spambot log, and see where the spambots are coming from tonight, shall we? China Mexico Iran Poland Israel
From a glance at the error log, I see that some people have been having trouble using our contact form; however, I’m also getting plenty of email through the form, so I know it is working as intended. There are two things your browser must allow in order to use ...
Let’s check the PHP error log, shall we, and see what kind of spambots we’ve caught in our trap? When I installed our new spambot blocking code yesterday, I made sure to log all email script accesses that didn’t pass the token verification procedure. This lets me collect a list ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Technology, Spam, Bots, captcha, jQuery, Javascript, Security
Here’s an update to yesterday’s report on the spambot infestation at LGF, attacking our contact form and “email an article” form: both forms have been available and active since yesterday afternoon, and not one spam email has gotten through since I installed the token-based method (using the jQuery Javascript library) ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Technology, Spam, Bots, captcha, jQuery, Javascript, Security
Oh brother. This morning a spambot of some kind finally got past the rather weak Javascript obfuscation I was using to hide the address of our contact form script, and my Inbox was filled with hundreds of porn/gambling spam emails, sent directly through the script using proxy IP addresses of ...
LGF, Internet, Blogosphere, Technology, Spam, Bots, captcha
On October 30 we noted reports of a flurry of Ron Paul spam email; now we learn that researchers have tracked it to a commercial spammer using facilities in the US to control a “botnet”—a network of virus-infected “zombie” machines: Researchers track Ron Paul spam back to Reactor botnet. ...
It is the night before Halloween, and the Ron Paul lunatics made their presence felt as Chris Matthews and Joe Trippi did their best to ignore the crazy elephant’s followers, screaming and throwing tantrums right behind them. Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, who cares!
Ron Paul camp followers have found a new tactic to spread the word about their object of devotion: Spam Email. Anti-spam researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) noted a disturbing new trend following Sunday’s Republican Candidates Presidential debate. One of the candidates has a new spam ...