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Next time, I take his fingers and I turn them into pretzels. I just might do the same thing to your face.
Submitted by Darius on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 21:26
Well, call it an entry to be filed in the ever-expanding tome of Lessons Learned or just another case of Asking For It, but ITM HQ has been hacked relentlessly for the better part of the last two days. At first, a few fraudulent account openings, rapidly followed by intermittent, but consistent, postings of spammy comments of forum responses. I reconfigured the CAPTCHA settings as a means of slowing the attacks, at least until I got the latest Drupal update set up. Given that we were at 6.10 and should be updated to 6.15, I suppose all of the attacks were deserved, in a way. If idle hands are the devil's playground, a seldom updated Drupal site may be at least a breeding ground for the web's bad bacteria. And seeing as how we're enjoying more hits than ever, I could imagine the spammers preying on any site on the ascend. We're closing out year two of reaching Into The Mantle, and we've got a lot in store. Not the least of which is me uploading the past few podcast episodes. So, I better get back to that now, while the hour is nigh...
~dm
