[Lilug Planning] spam on lilug wiki

Mark Drago markdrago at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 06:59:45 PDT 2011


Hello,

Sometime Friday and again over the weekend we had some spammy pages
created on the lilug wiki.  It looks like ~ 15 accounts were created
and each one created a user page for their account which contained a
bunch of text and links to other sites.  No pages containing lilug
content were defaced.  I have enabled a simple captcha on the wiki.
When you try and create an account, edit a page, or create a new page
you will have to solve a simple math problem (ex: 96 + 2 = ?) in order
to continue.  Once the captcha was enabled I deleted all of the spam
pages and blocked all of the accounts which were created (including
the IP addresses used to access those accounts).  Let me know if you
have any questions.


Thanks,
Mark.



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