As the bugfixed version 2.2.20 of the apache webserver hit the portage tree on gentoo, it’s safe to remove the security hacks which leaded to some uncool problems with Git. Finally things are going back to normal.
Category: Security
Bad software, virii, spam…
News from the blacklist
Since I am running my blacklist to prevent spam on WordPress Blogs, many days have passed and I was curious again of what happened behind the scenes and I did some statistics.
Is WP-Blackcheck effective?
That was the basic question of the research I did during the last days, greping through the logs to find some info to get an impression of the blacklists effect. Now I know, it isn’t in vain. If we’d say we have 10000 requests we would get about: 9000 Spam Comments 1000 Ham Comments 100 Reports
Malware is expensive
Everybody who is about to disagree with my headline might say that malware is free as it just stops by on your computer if it got some security holes due to missing patches or bad configuration. I do not disagree with that as there were no costs for the programmer, no licensing fees – a perfect example of […]
Spam or Virus?
Today I had one of those typical spam malware in my mailbox, showing that Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used mail programs, being attacked all the time: Microsoft Outlook Notification for the xxxx@xxxx.xx Support [xxxx@xxxx.xx] Sent :Thu 15/10/2009 06:38 To xxxx@xxxx.xx Attachment install.zip (12kb) You have (6) New Message from Outlook Microsoft – Please re-configure […]
Filling the gaps
My blacklist service runs fine by now and I have checked the results on a regular base. Fact is, that there are some IP ranges delivering quite much spam – so I decided to blacklist the ‘gaps’ in between the addresses as it is to suspect that those IPs might also get active. To recognize those ranges, the […]