<span class="gmail_quote"></span>We need to watch out for this as well.<br><br>Brian<br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Passwords<br>Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:32:34 +0100<br>From: Andrew Gray <
<a href="mailto:shimgray@gmail.com">shimgray@gmail.com</a>><br>Reply-To: <a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a>, <a href="mailto:wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org">wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><br>For those who haven't yet heard, someone has been hitting en.wikipedia<br>with what appears to be an attack looking for admins with weak
<br>passwords - "password", "password1", "[username]", etc. Then they go<br>on a predictable spree; deleting the main page, mostly. I think we're<br>down four so far...<br><br>It's possible someone might try this in the near future on other wikis
<br>- a lot of vandals tend to only go for en, but you never know, this<br>one might be feeling multicultural!<br><br>This might be a good time to spread the word and ask your admins to<br>consider checking their passwords are good and secure - after all,
<br>it's good practice anyway.<br><br>--<br>- Andrew Gray<br> <a href="mailto:andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk">andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Wikipedia-l mailing list
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