In-band registration without captcha is big security risk. And not only for you, but for whole network. Close your in-band registration, your server is dangerous for our federation.
Thanks. Jan pinky Pinkas Dne 10. dubna 2012 23:03 Claudiu Curcă <[email protected]> napsal(a): > Hello, > > > > Tonight I've noticed an increase in server traffic and once I checked stuff > aut I saw that some few thousand users were created from a russian IP > address (178.47.4.86). The users were automatically created with the > username XXyyyyyyZZ, where (XX and ZZ are numerica land yyyyy are random > words). According to logs, all these users flooded the user [email protected], > probably as some sort of childish revenge or something similar. > > > > Lately, I've been firewalling entire classes of IPs from the Russian > Federation because of these automated registrations, although only now logs > have shown actual flooding. > > > > With all respect to free and boundless communication, I am taking the > caution of blocking each and every IP block from the Russian Federation, > since I do not want (nor have to, for that matter) stay and guard the server > from automated registrations (as a fun fact, out of all the former automated > registrations detected, 105 of them, 104 were from Russia). > > > > I know it's harsh, but I encourage the rest of the admins to be vigilant and > take hard countermeasures against such abuse. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Claudiu Curcă - coderollers.com > >
