Posts where I’m ranting about someone or something
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 2017-08-05 14:58:21,110[dovecot-disconnect] Ban 1.175.2.48 2017-08-05 14:58:23,213[dovecot-disconnect] Ban 1.175.27.62 2017-08-05 14:58:24,683[dovecot-disconnect] Ban 1.180.64.86 2017-08-05 14:58:27,764[dovecot-disconnect] Ban […]
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.
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 really does give the game away. Then why on earth should someone send Security alert […]
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 I use Askimet : But they obviously never check that its working – mind you […]
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.
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 the post….
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 that other people have had this same IP address hitting them. So tell me Capita […]
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 wanted to use to make the data better. As well as that it’s been a […]
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] Ban 103.229.84.194 2014-10-23 12:51:27,010 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban 59.94.15.250 2014-10-23 12:51:51,892 fail2ban.actions: WARNING [postfix] Ban […]
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 excess of a week but they apparently cannot fix it.