Comments on: The 12h USSM spam-a-thon on behalf of our Russian overlords

By: Typical Idiot Fan

Typical Idiot Fan — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:32:31 +0000

I wonder if this is related to the Storm botnet.

By: DMZ

DMZ — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:06:47 +0000

I wrote a somewhat cathartic short story about how cloud computing technology would inevitably result in anti-spammer vigilante actions last night. It’s surprisingly good a day later, though it obviously needs some work.

By: NBarnes

NBarnes — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:27:59 +0000

Some days I like to fantasize about being a vigilante who goes out at night in a funny costume and beats the holy living hell out of internet criminals who think they’re beyond the reach of justice.

By: wabbles

wabbles — Sat, 30 May 2009 19:15:28 +0000

No of course not, but my credit union, Yahoo, work computer, etc. all do have hard drives and modems. Scary.

By: Jeff Nye

Jeff Nye — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:28:50 +0000

If you don’t have a hard drive, there’s not really too much to worry about.

Derek and Dave do a lot of hard work behind the scenes that you guys don’t see that helps keep this place going.

By: wabbles

wabbles — Sat, 30 May 2009 16:41:07 +0000

Now I am A) scared once again about Internet security and I don’t even have a hard drive (MSNTV2, it’s a ways behind the tech curve but safe in that respect) and B) amazed at the time and effort you guys put in here. Apparently it’s not just the baseball side of things either.

By: dchappelle

dchappelle — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:24:42 +0000

Don’t forget about the “Donate” link on the left to buy him a beer.

By: SonOfZavaras

SonOfZavaras — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:57:10 +0000

DMZ-
Thank you for all the efforts in making this site safer- I know this has got to be (or had to be) three shades of royal bitch to deal with.

Unfortunately, some people just love to wreak havoc on whatsoever they can find.

I won’t speak for anyone else normally, but I think it’s safe for me to say we all appreciate everything you do around here.

Fortunately, it seems Henryv (thanx for the birthday holler, Henry!!)and JSA might be able to offer some assistance- if it’s me, I’m hopelessly out of my league on blocking spammers and viral attacks.

By: jsa

jsa — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:57:32 +0000

There are a number of posts on the forum at wordpress about various hacks in the past.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/220840

It almost always boils down to loose or guessable passwords, leading to sql injections.

By: Slurve

Slurve — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:17:49 +0000

Go Rambo on their asses!

“Who do you think DMZ is? God?”
“No God would have mercy”