Well, we’ve patched the holes and stopped the bleeding. The Big Swede’s server is happily back to normal traffic levels after about 5 days of hammering. Turns out it was not zombie attacks per se but instead, he got listedContinue reading… Breathing Easy
Author: Joe
Don't Think it's a Problem?
Don’t think that referer spam is a problem? What about when it goes crazy? The Big Swede has has a lot of fun over the last couple of days as thousands of zombie machines based mostly in Japan have hitContinue reading… Don't Think it's a Problem?
Just In Time
Ahh, 200 more referal spam attempts last night, all from our friends at fidelityfunding. One might ask why they keep hitting the site with referers when they are just getting 403 errors and there’s no way their domains are gettingContinue reading… Just In Time
Referer Spamming Bastards
Today I took some entries from another fellow’s .htaccess file, and just in time. Today TGB was hit with over 70 referer spam attempts. For those who don’t know, referer spamming was originally designed to increase page rank in GoogleContinue reading… Referer Spamming Bastards
Friends
It’s always fun finding friends from Alaska hanging out on the web. So I thought I would post a few resources: Eric Rolph: Blog, Flickr Ian Kristensen: Blog Good down home Alaskan boys from the Kenai Peninsula.
Progress on the Server Front
Found out that OS X server does something a little weird with logs. Turns out that 500.weekly ends up gzipping the httpd logs every saturday and creating a new log with root:admin as the user and group respectively. This meansContinue reading… Progress on the Server Front
More Server Stuff
Being a web server admin is a never ending task I tell ya. Now that I’m using a pretty excellent web stats package, AWstats, I’ve noticed the crappy amounts of referrer spam I’m getting. Referrer spam sucks. So I’m goingContinue reading… More Server Stuff