| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
| Cc: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Wiki 2FA |
| Date: | 2016-01-25 15:55:08 |
| Message-ID: | 20160125155508.GA506333@alvherre.pgsql |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> We had a look at the kind of content that was being posted. One pattern
> was that they posted a phone number hundreds or thousands of times in
> different pages, with surrouding text stating that the number was the
> support line for some home product (a laser printer, scanner, etc). No
> URLs at all. The phone number was the valid number for some poor sod
> who had no relationship at all to the product in question. (It wasn't a
> single phone number, but it was a very limited amount of numbers. Maybe
> a dozen, posted in thousands of fake pages, vandalized valid pages,
> posted on user pages, and even on the comments for the wiki changes.)
Eh. Today I just saw that somebody posted the same kind of content (a
number for support service of a well known Windows antivirus software)
in the bug report form.
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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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