We just got hit by a huge spam application attack
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2020 1:33 pm
Hi folks
Overnight we got hit by a huge spam application attack. I had over 70 applications in the past 11 hours and as I was changing the our rather unique spambot countermeasure questions, we got 11 more. Hopefully our new questions will stop the attack.
It takes me a couple of minutes to check out each legitimate application and perhaps double that for questionable applications (have to decipher the "whois IP address lookup" information to see where the applicaton came from). As a result, I had to take the "emergency" action and delete all of the applications. It is possible that I deleted one or more legitimate applications.
If you applied for forum membership in the past two days and have not had your account activated, please re-apply for membership.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
Jim
Overnight we got hit by a huge spam application attack. I had over 70 applications in the past 11 hours and as I was changing the our rather unique spambot countermeasure questions, we got 11 more. Hopefully our new questions will stop the attack.
It takes me a couple of minutes to check out each legitimate application and perhaps double that for questionable applications (have to decipher the "whois IP address lookup" information to see where the applicaton came from). As a result, I had to take the "emergency" action and delete all of the applications. It is possible that I deleted one or more legitimate applications.
If you applied for forum membership in the past two days and have not had your account activated, please re-apply for membership.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
Jim