Botnet still chugging along

Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing

Its still going: Jun 12 18:41:25 Debussy dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 9 secs): user=<colin@some.domain.here>, method=PLAIN, rip=36.7.79.21, Jun 12 18:42:01 Debussy dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 8 secs): user=<colin>, method=PLAIN, rip=113.240.237.10, Jun 12 19:11:58 Debussy dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (auth failed, 1 attempts in 9 secs): user=<drtone@some.domain.here>, method=PLAIN, rip=218.201.83.148, Jun […]

Hackers, crackers and other annoyances

Posted on by Steve | Category: Computing, Rants

My server was getting swamped the other day, checking into it I found that it was links from LiveJournal to a pic in my photo albums which someone had used to illustrate a tack poem. Livejournal users had then copied this poem round each other, and republished it – and every view was leeching the […]