Category Archives: Rants

Posts where I’m ranting about someone or something

More Botnet stats

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Steve

So I upgraded Fail2ban and so had to restart it. As it stores it’s bans in a database it can restore them at start up. And what a depressingly long list it is for the botnet: 2017-08-05 14:58:20,149[dovecot-disconnect] Ban 1.163.34.115 … Continue reading →

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More Stupid Spammers

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Steve

I mean what sort of fuckwit would fall for this. And then I get another modified version of the same shit – with a different unmasked URL.

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Another stupid set of spam emails

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Steve

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 address with similar messages in it … Continue reading →

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Spamming Fuckwits

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Steve

It’s pretty obvious that spammers (i.e. the people controlling the compromised machines that are doing the work) are a bunch of stupid fuckwits… This site gets between 10 and 20 spam comments a day… None of them have appeared because … Continue reading →

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Gifted Psychic? Stupid Spammer more like

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Steve

Come on Spammers – do you really think shit like this gets through? Surely a “Gifted Psychic” would have known this would get flagged up as spam.

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Are Spammers getting even thicker?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Steve

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 : That’s only about 1/5th of … Continue reading →

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Capita still allowing hacking from their network

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Steve

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 internet shows … Continue reading →

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Bits and bobs

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Steve

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 which I … Continue reading →

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Todays list of scum

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Steve

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 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [sasl] Ban 63.152.242.19 2014-10-23 12:47:16,215 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 49.230.184.69 2014-10-23 12:49:02,731 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 185.7.100.97 2014-10-23 12:49:41,087 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] … Continue reading →

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“Ignore the Security Certificate Warning”

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Steve

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 their SSL certs have been broken for in … Continue reading →

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