Maybe consider using the 'no CAPTCHA' recaptcha? Vanush
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tom Rondeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I wanted to let everyone know that gnuradio.org has been hit with a serious > amount of spam activity today. We restrict much of the editing to signed-in > users and use a recaptcha plugin to prevent bots from creating bogus > accounts, which is something we dealt with a while ago. They are now getting > around the recaptcha, creating bogus users, and posting Issue and editing > the wiki page of our site. > > Johnathan Corgan and I have removed the bogus issues, fixed the main wiki, > and locked all of the accounts under suspicion. We have also disabled > automatic authentication of users, and so new users must now be manually > activated. I will be monitoring this activity for the next few days and hope > it dies down. In the meantime, if you make an account that I don't activate > (within a reasonable amount of time), ping me on the side about it. > > Meanwhile, I don't think there was any other damage done to the site besides > the front page that has already been fixed. But if you are looking around at > pages and it seems like spam (and it's pretty obvious -- talks about phone > numbers to call for tech support about various products), please report it > to us. > > It looks like this kind of thing has been happening for a while on other > sites. It just managed to hit us today. > > Thanks, > Tom > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
