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Moronic Comment spammers
What a stupid comment spam: If you are going to post spam comments (which automatically get trapped by my spam filters) the least you could do is post stuff that is slightly amusing and makes sense...
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Wonderful Suggestion from Facebook
Going to Suggest an Edit on Semalt’s Facebook page comes up with the following: Diahreaa is a pretty fitting suggestion!
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“Ignore the Security Certificate Warning”
EE have invalid SSL certs on their website. The OFFICIAL response is that you should IGNORE the warning: Remember EE are not some fly-by-night operation. They are a huge communications company and...
View ArticleWordbooker and Canalplan
Well since I decided to abandon Wordbooker due to the major changes in the Facebook API and changes in the FB newsfeed algorithms which mean that Wordbooker posts actually got poor “reach” I’ve been...
View ArticleFail2ban tweaks
So I tweaked Fail2ban so it picked up failed SASL auth sesssion… There are a LOT of compromised machines out there: 2014-10-21 15:57:08,236 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 222.247.167.96...
View ArticleTodays list of scum
2014-10-23 04:39:51,514 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [apache-wplogin] Ban 198.23.155.76 2014-10-23 11:02:05,033 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 111.249.35.151 2014-10-23 12:44:57,061...
View ArticleBits and bobs
Although I should be working on getting all the data loaded into the Canalplan Boats Database I’ve not been making a lot of progress on getting the new data and the old data mapped into a new structure...
View ArticleCapita still allowing hacking from their network
So several days after reporting to Capita that they had a compromised machine on their network what do I see but the same IP address come back and start doing exactly the same thing. A search on the...
View ArticleMerging Sites
I looked at what was over on canalplan blogs and decided that actually pulling the couple of live blogs over to here and closing down that site was the best thing to do. So I exported and imported the...
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Are Spammers getting even thicker?
Or are they simply paying the people who spam such shit money that they can’t even run a script properly? Look at this pile of crap that I found as a blocked comment today : Can’t even code properly...
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Greek University BotNet
The following emails arrived in exactly the order they are shown here…… something tells me the University has a bit of a botnet going on. Greek Bot Net
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Toshiba Dual Boot recovery
Toshiba released 2 updates to my Satellite Windows 10 laptop. One reset the power settings so that shut down got set back to quick boot and the other changed the order of the UEFI boot so that I could...
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Stupid pages that have paid Facebook to be forced into my Page feed
The mobile browser news feed for Facebook includes a section featuring “sponsored” pages which they think you might want to like. You can’t hide this section but their selection criteria is totally...
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Post Exporting and Importing
I’m planning on being on holiday later in the year (see Liverpool in the Autumn for more details ) and I’m planning on doing some blogging whilst we’re underway. So I want to be able to write my posts...
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Another stupid set of spam emails
Yet more stupid spam arrived in my inbox today. Lets just take two examples from the small tsunami that arrived. What spammers forget is that sending TWO emails from different people to the SAME...
View ArticleMoving to HTTPS
Well I’ve moved the blogs over to https… it was a bit of a pain and I was really starting to bash my head against the wall with Lets Encrypt’s utilities. But then I stopped trying to be clever and used...
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More shit from the internet
I tightened up the fail2ban rules after looking at my mail logs. The result is impressive but at the same time depressing … so many machines trying to break into my server. Several from GoDaddy…. I...
View ArticleBad IPs
Its the list of usual suspects – China featuring high in the list of machines trying to break into servers (no surprises there) and OVH : 89.248.174.27 60.173.16.74 161.0.153.110 123.214.172.84...
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A very large but sneakily slow bot-net?
Anyone who runs a server is used to it to being attacked by compromised machines which target their SSH services, their web services and their email services. The attack on the email services takes two...
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