[OpenStack-Infra] Wiki.o.o sustaining spam attack

Elizabeth K. Joseph lyz at princessleia.com
Fri Feb 12 17:46:12 UTC 2016


On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 9:34 AM, James E. Blair <corvus at inaugust.com> wrote:
> I spot-checked three of the spammer accounts in the db; they had
> launchpad OpenID accounts.

As a data-point from Ubuntu-land, the Ubuntu wikis (MoinMoin, not
MediaWiki, but also requiring Launchpad OpenID auth) have also been
subject to attack since mid-December, so there are definitely spam bot
scripts out there that now that know how to create Launchpad accounts
to spam various types of wikis.

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Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2



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