On 14.06.2013 17:56, Nilay Vaish wrote:
> I just noticed that in past two days, at least 1000 changes were made to > the wiki. Each of these change was either a user account creation or a > change to user page. It is quite clear that this is a malicious activity. > In past, I have observed user accounts were being created on the wiki with > absurd names and then random pages were created/edited using those > accounts. But the intensity of such activity was always very low. > > I think we need to do something. Does mediawiki has some security features > that we can make use of? > > Thanks > Nilay > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev [1] I saw a bunch of user accounts being created (clearly our old captcha was being easily defeated) and switched to using recaptcha last night. That should make it harder for bots, but we already require a confirmed email address to edit. Any help in cleaning up the mess is appreciated. Thanks, Ali Links: ------ [1] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
