Wednesday, January 17, 2007
TrackBack Spam Attack
I've temporally disabled the TrackBack support for this blog due to a massive spam attack. It's my fault, I must admit. I enabled the TrackBack feature in my blog engine and left the anti-spam code for another day. I've been quite busy since then and some malicious robot found the open door. I think this is part of the risk I accepted when decided to write my own engine instead of running a well known one, like WordPress, though.
Now, I have to delete all the spam (maybe programmatically because I've received a lot of false TrackBacks) and turn TrackBack on again with anti-spam protection added, so I have more work to do.
But this case has a positive side effect: This attack has been a great help in testing and debugging my blog engine. So it's not so bad after all, although I don't want it to happen again.
I guess TrackBack will be back in next weekend, since anti-spam protection is half coded already (I remember now that I need to code a better anti-spam protection for comments too). If I wasn't so lazy... (sigh).
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Now, I have to delete all the spam (maybe programmatically because I've received a lot of false TrackBacks) and turn TrackBack on again with anti-spam protection added, so I have more work to do.
But this case has a positive side effect: This attack has been a great help in testing and debugging my blog engine. So it's not so bad after all, although I don't want it to happen again.
I guess TrackBack will be back in next weekend, since anti-spam protection is half coded already (I remember now that I need to code a better anti-spam protection for comments too). If I wasn't so lazy... (sigh).
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2 Comments:
- I've checked in from time to time since you were a blog of note. Since your new blog engine is a roll your own affair, I'm curious as to what you rolled your engine with eg PHP, Perl, Python, RoR etc?
- Sorry for the late response, I've been really busy these days. My engine is a collection of several PHP scripts, most of them are from other blog engines and tailored to my needs. However, the pages are served statically. I'm considering to move away from PHP somewhere in far future, I don't like it very much.
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