20080530
Follow up: Norwegian Hospital Vandal Shutdown
Thanks to the IT team at the hospital in Oslo, Norway for their quick response to the wave of vandalism that has plagued this website and many other websites on the Internet.Their response has inspired me to send out letters to other sites who may be abusing the Internet to spread unsolicited and in some cases illegal content.
While CAPTCHAs may not guarantee a decreased risk of vandalism, it will certainly be considered as a countermeasure. Because of the recent cracks of the CAPTCHA, the Honeypot-style plan is effective.
Hopefully, I will not be sending any more messages to hospitals in Norway.
Once again, Thanks!
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/30/2008 09:37:00 PM (0) comments top
20080529
A new plan to deal with vandals
My new plan creates a page of every banned IP address. Rather than a long list of IPs that can be difficult to sort, and a pain to list if over 300 vandal IPs are attacking your site at once. (ouch!)I'm also sending letters out to companies whose employees or students are quietly vandalizing websites.
I don't know why a hospital in Norway is posting links to pornographic websites, but I'm sure that their Information Technology department will give me a reason.
The new plan uses resources from the various NICs (Network Information Centres). While this is alot of work, it will be something to keep me busy until I can find work. (Career Builder sucks!)
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/29/2008 08:04:00 PM (0) comments top
20080528
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 (0) comments top
20070509
The Forums are closed Indefinitely again
Until further notice, Forums.BushidoHacks.com is closed indefintely. The fourms suffered a major spam attack last month from a long list of IP addresses that are now banned. Secondly, despite my many efforts to bring sentient traffic to my fourms, nothing has helped bring the forums to life. I really wanted to start a community of Midwestern computer programmers and college students, but seening as how I am no longer in college, and with sites such as Craigslist, MySpace, Slashdot, and Fark, it is time for me to admit that a small website such as BushidoHacks.com is not big enough to run with the big dogs.I can still dream.
Sometimes dreams can become too out of reach. When that happens, you should put them on a shelf for a little while until you have the resources to fulfill them again.
For now, this blog and my wiki, Neko.BushidoHacks.com will have to suffice.
Labels: forums, myspace, neko, stlouis
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/09/2007 12:25:00 PM (1) comments top
