Re: Spam on the wiki

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Spam on the wiki
Date: 2015-12-16 17:21:47
Message-ID: CABUevEyFvPPLZciJq+bihsW=-K2VmHnw4jc0hO6DZeOaOXD7hQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
> > I've blocked those two users, and it looks like Alvarro has done
> > a few more.
>
> There seem to be a lot of user IDs involved. Do we know whether
> there are new user registrations happening, or were all these set
> up before the attack?
>

There are new user registrations happening. Not sure if those are the ones
used, but there definitely are.

Either they've found a way to script-generate gmail addresses, or they have
found a way to break the django hashes.

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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

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