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Neko Wiki assaulted, reinforced
Running a website is not all roses and wildflowers. Sometimes it is hardwork.As previous posts would indicate, one of the most challenging parts of running your own website is security. While I tend not to constantly think about security, sometimes you have to let your guard down in order to build security up.
Such was the case this month at this website, specifically the Neko wiki.
Apparently, sometime between May 11th and May 27th (yesterday), over 300 vandal IP addresses assaulted the wiki. When I started taking countermeasures, the attacks suddenly stopped. It was like turning the light on in a room full of cockroaches.
The history of one of the pages that was created, which will now be used as a "honeypot" for gathering more rouge vandals shows that vandalism was not just added to the wiki, but it was also removed and edited by the same IP address. This may indicate that not all the vandals are web robots, but live people.
An investigation will be taking place that will thoughly identfy the more active offenders.
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/28/2008 09:30:00 AM
