[Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha
Chris Lewis
yecheondigital at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 16 05:45:14 UTC 2011
Yes I have the same problem. So annoying. Are humans confirming the emails as
well?
I have captcha, email confirmation and the SpamBlacklist extension and i'm still
getting spammed every day for the last week. They keep making new accounts every
day. What can I do since they are bypassing all this? Really annoying and time
consuming banning users and deleting spam pages.
Chris
>Good Morning MediaWiki Fans:
>Our wiki site suffered a spam attack this weekend. (version 1.13.0) The attack
>evidently
>had some method to work-around the new account Captcha barrier, and the
>authorized user email allowed to edit setting. I'm curious if anyone
>else has encountered such attacks and if there are new ways to block
>bogus account creation.
>--Hiram
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