You may notice a blip today~

[Deebs]

I will be running some security updates, and patches today. Over the past 3 months I have put together a rather comprehensive security posture for our little home here on the net. There have been an increasing number of crawlers, and spambots at our front door, most now are automatically rectified during registration by current practices we have in place. I have been noticing an uptick with some users that are using VPN's though. IP's are showing up in the spam database that we reference to deny user registration. If your IP's are in this list, access may be restricted.

We check all of these blacklists, and more... As you see here this user Ip is listed in spam.spamrats.com.



Contact me if you experience any issues. Keeping us solid, one day at a time.

 

[Deebs]

Check your PM's if you get a message from me. I will be following up with users when alerts are received. Instead of automatically rejecting, and disabling accounts of member. I would like to see if there is a way to remediate, otherwise site limitations could occur as I automate tasks..

I received an alert this morning that I am currently in the middle of validating with the user. If you can, check your IP on StopForumSpam. Even some of my VPN addresses failed. I had to switch locations. So far have only validated with Nord/Proton VPN

 

[Psychobilly]

Be an absolute shame if someone made a screen saver that sends nonsensical packets aimed at those addresses every time it comes on LOL.

The combo of Apache and the Gzip compression for the traffic on here, doesn't that have an option for some of the more well known spam bots to be blocked at the application layer ? I haven't set up a web server in like 10 years or so but I could have sworn they had an add on. Depending on which version of Linux or BSD the site runs anyway.

Those bots are getting more annoying by the day.

 

[Deebs]

Oh we definitely have a verbose list in the robots.txt @Psychobilly. I have a deny all policy, with an approved whitelist.

 

[Psychobilly]

Oh we definitely have a verbose list in the robots.txt @Psychobilly. I have a deny all policy, with an approved whitelist.

Deny all is definitely a good policy for those stupid bots. The first time I setup Apache I barely knew what I was doing, so I toyed with it a lot, and eventually it was up and running and ready for "production" which was really just me using it to have a web front end to my back ups LOL. I've got drives full of music, movies, TV shows and so on, and normally I just used VSFTPd to set up a quick and reliable FTP server, but I hated the FTP clients on Windows so if I was using a Windows machine, I would get tired of it and ended up with the Webserver so I could just use a browser LOL.