Mad Mike’s America Under Attack by Spammers
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MadMike’sAmerica is under attack by spammers. This morning I had to remove several hundred pieces of junk comments that were caught by the spam filter and held for moderation. As a result the site has slowed to a crawl with no real idea when the problem will be resolved. We are working with our host and hope to return to normal service soon.
A relatively low-key, but intense attack on WordPress (WP) based sites is under way.
WordPress is a very popular CMS (Content-Management System) that forms the backend for almost 17% of all websites on the internet. This includes sites like eBay and any number of blogs from the blogosphere. The attack itself is a very basic brute-force attacks that takes advantage of our laziness by trying to guess a server’s password from a pool of commonly used passwords. The attack is currently using comparatively underpowered home-PCs with limited bandwidth, but as it gains access to more and more servers, the attack can grow in magnitude and threaten the entire system.
Your patience and loyalty is appreciated.
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The bastards nicked my last post!!! NUKE ‘EM!!!!
I will shut up now as I have no idea what is going on.
I think I’ll go to sleep now – the world will be safer that way 😉
As Monty Pythons Flying Circus often said :
“Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam Spam…ad infinitum”
I will bugger off now as I shouldn’t even be here – beddy byes awaits as I am off oop north on the morrow…
Bastards!! Glad you’re back up and running and running.
So five minutes after posting this I was informed that this is a global issue indeed. Fortunately, it has been fixed, until the next attack that is….
They want the secret to your success Mike.
We can only dream Bill 🙂