We need to watch out for this as well.

Brian

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Passwords Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 20:32:34 +0100 From: Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com Reply-To: andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk, wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: wikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

For those who haven't yet heard, someone has been hitting en.wikipedia with what appears to be an attack looking for admins with weak passwords - "password", "password1", "[username]", etc. Then they go on a predictable spree; deleting the main page, mostly. I think we're down four so far...

It's possible someone might try this in the near future on other wikis - a lot of vandals tend to only go for en, but you never know, this one might be feeling multicultural!

This might be a good time to spread the word and ask your admins to consider checking their passwords are good and secure - after all, it's good practice anyway.

-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk

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