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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2012, 04:17:54 pm »
What I think is that it's the same software but updated, but some bots users haven't updated to the latest version yet. It definitively seems weird, though. I wonder if you would be able to report those bots to CloudFlare?
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2012, 10:47:53 am »
pr0nbot just hit omni O.O
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2012, 11:51:40 am »
Now if only people would report the post as more then just "spam". I was unprepared, and at work.... yeah awkward.
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2012, 12:03:42 pm »
Well, there was "18+" in the title, but unless you speak Russian it still doesn't say if there's actual porn pics in the post or just links to porn.

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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2012, 12:05:12 pm »
I wasn't looking at the title lol, I just read the reason for the report and clicked the link. I should pay more attention I guess.
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2012, 02:17:14 pm »
Quote from: yeongJIN_COOL on November 20, 2012, 10:47:53 am
pr0nbot just hit omni O.O

Did it post lobster/calc adult stuff?? O.O

Also lol at school they had strict rules against porn, but they tolerated when they saw pop ups appear with adult pics, knowing very well that back then, pop up blockers didn't exist and that even site like Newgrounds had adult site ads. Just as long as we tried to close them immediately (usually impossible due to extreme lag) >.<
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2012, 11:04:14 pm »
The number of registrations per day is dropping drastically. I'm blaming Hackaday feature.
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2012, 01:24:02 am »
Why would the Hackaday feature bring registrations down?
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2012, 02:46:32 am »
I meant the opposite ???

Shortly after they featured the Linux Nspire stuff, registrations went from 2-3 to 100+. Slashdot didn't affect them much. They eventually dropped a few days later (I guess the article is far from Hackaday front page now). Otherwise it could be that CloudFlare was updated or something.
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2012, 09:47:15 am »
Quote from: DJ_O on November 19, 2012, 01:07:21 pm
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Don't know if its related, but UCF has been hit by quite a few bots recently too.
Didn't it also get hacked by the way? That was a bit scary when I got that e-mail. >.< I know TI-Freakware was hit by the spambot wave too, and on SMF, someone said he noticed a huge spike in spam in the last few days.

Well, it got hacked a while back, but since the hacker only stole information, and didn't do any damage, we didn't know about it until 2072 went through the logs recently.

He didnt get any actual passwords, just the MD5 hashes. So 2072 just had everyone reset their passwords and that should be fine.
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #25 on: November 23, 2012, 06:13:24 pm »
Well I dont know if this works, but I read a post (I think it was Sorunomes) that putting hidden text boxes in the registration that when typed in dont allow you to be registered worked very well. I dont know just a suggestion
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Re: Extreme spambot rush last night
« Reply #26 on: November 23, 2012, 07:07:24 pm »
Yeah I saw some sites do that before. I  don't remember if it was effective, though, since some bots could detect them or retry by omitting info in some boxes.

SOmething I wonder: Would replacing "password" with "securityKey" or something like that (even purposely mispelling "password") cause bots to not be able to find the password fields?
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