[Lincs] Wiki Defacement

[Grahame.Mulliss at ulh.nhs.uk]

A CAPCHA test page may be of some help in defeating spambots from being
used to deface the LUG Wiki.

More details (for openwiki, the wiki I use) can be found here:
http://www.openwiki.com/ow.asp?OpenWiki%2FExtensions%2FCapchaPage

Hope that helps.

Grahame Mulliss



-----Original Message-----
From: lincs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:lincs-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Pete Hunt
Sent: 24 June 2005 21:24
To: Lincolnshire Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Lincs] Wiki Defacement

Ben Francis wrote:
> Things like this --> http://lincs.lug.org.uk/wiki make me question my 
> usually optimistic view of the human race.

What, tech support doesn't? :)  Has this happened for every "Removing
Spam" entry in the diffs or is this a bigger defacement?  I'm assuming
the previous ones didn't do so much?

> Any suggestions to prevent this in the future? I'm generally against 
> password protecting public spaces.

Delay updates to certain pages until they been given the once over?

Password protect particular pages -- frontpage, for example.  That's SOP
on most wikis.

Looks like it came from Singapore?  Can we ask the server admins to
block IPs from known spammer-friendly countries that have no real reason
to read LLUG? (Yes, just makes it slightly more difficult to deface, I
know).

Pete

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