[Imc-web] Re: [UCIMC-Tech] Spam Storm Coming

[Mike Lehman]

An update, as two more of these popped up this afternoon. I noticed that 
the posts actually seem to have a 1x1 pixel file associated with them, 
as I've listed below. All have the "_original" in the little box that 
you browse to to attach a file. Then it indicates there are 43 bytes in 
the file.

We now have:
"28" with
http://www.ucimc.org/files/images/avatar_0_0.gif

And "33" with
http://www.ucimc.org/files/images/avatar_3.gif

Does this sort of thing ring a bell with anyone? The previous ones were 
something similar,but I didn't notice the fact that the file name 
differs with each one and isn't just an example on the entry form like I 
thought it was..
Mike Lehman


Mike Lehman wrote:
> Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the latest post purporting to offer porn was as a registered user "rebexx" with a email address of endvoler at gmail.com .
>
> I blocked that account on our site. Any suggestions about what we should do in following up on the email address? Does gmail block user accounts of theirs if we file a complaint?
> Mike Lehman
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> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>
>> Sent: Sep 19, 2008 9:33 PM
>> To: imc-web at ucimc.org
>> Cc: imc-tech at ucimc.org
>> Subject: [UCIMC-Tech] Spam Storm Coming
>>
>> In a reminder about why we desperately need to get the website updated, we've been receiving clumsy probes the last several days from what looks like may be the next spam storm. Until today, these had consisted of double digit number titles, e.g. "55," and what seems to be an attempt to upload a file. e.g. "_original".
>>
>> The latest one posted was titled "Miley Cyrus nude" and I edited that, along with deleting the file upload attempts on the previous messages. I'm not exactly looking forward to when the script kiddie gets his footing here on how to automate his crap.
>>
>> We'd previously been forced to turn off anonymous comments because David hasn't had access to implement a better captcha scheme. It now looks like we may be about to need to do that with original article posting soon.
>>
>> I'm just saying...
>> Mike Lehman
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