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Russian ISP Caravan.ru Attacks |
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Written by Baratta Design
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Friday, 28 December 2007 |
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Our server and several sites have been under attack by a Russian ISP called Caravan.ru over the last week. Its called trackback spam and this ISP, Caravan.ru has a long history of flooding websites with trackback spam. A simple search of Google will bring back proof of many years of abuse to blog comment type websites.
Most of the compliants I found were from the owners of Wordpress sites. In our case, it was my fault the door was left open. I was running a beta version of a comment component and the spam prevention part of the software was not working, the older version received no trackback spam.
Caravan.ru managed to bring down our server for an hour or two. They hit a couple of sites with about 3000 track back spams each. I didn't find the big one of over 50,000 trackback spam links until the following day.
It started again a few days after the first attack and I recorded over 3000 visits to one site in a few hours. Much like a Dos attack where they nail you so hard from different IP addresses and the result is your site slows down and the people you want to visit can't. Plus the links they are submitting are some of the most sick garbage you have ever seen in your life.
We have taken steps to prevent any further attacks, like turning off the trackback feature but, since it is just a 'bot' or piece of software that is tryin g to submit the trackback spam, they continued to hit the server anyway.
Security reasons prevent discus
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Written by Daryl Baratta
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Sunday, 14 October 2007 |
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The new Skype plugin (mambot) is a handy extension for Joomla. Skype to Skype is free. I have talked with a few customers about it and they were not aware that you could talk with other Skype users for free. They do have a few paid plans that look very reasonable. You can see the Bot in action here. (Customers, please e-mail to arrange a time to talk, thank you!) You can see the Skype plugin on the Skype Contact Page . |
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Written by Bob Test
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
Now this is blogging! Says Bob Test while writing his first blog entry using MyBlog at Baratta Design |
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Written by Daryl Baratta
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
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Hello, Real blogging for Joomla with MyBlog!, the premier blogging tool for the popular Content Management System - Joomla!. MyBlog is a feature packed, AJAX enabled replacement for the Joomla! Blog component. |
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