Comments on: Tailrank Bombarded With Spamz

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:13:10 +0000

We HAVE noticed a bug with Apache that we’re working around. Oddly enough it’s the same Apache install that we’ve been running for 2 years.

Anyway… Glad it’s fixed now!!!

By: Micahville

Micahville — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:09:37 +0000

Si, I was getting some 404 messages, or there were some issues with the server. It seems to be fixed now though.

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:57:11 +0000

We’re still trying to fully put together the attack. It looks like spammers compromised a bunch of weblogs and also a bunch of .edu sites and were using the .edus for gateways.

We’ll try to post on it later tonight.

What do you mean Tailrank tools were broken? Like the URL was 404ing?

KEvin

By: Micahville

Micahville — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:17:34 +0000

No worries. I was just surprised to see it. I had never seen very much spam on TechMeMe before, so I wasn’t expecting it. How did it happen?

P.S. Do you know why the Tailrank tools were offline last week?

By: Kevin Burton

Kevin Burton — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:07:10 +0000

It’s just spam…. it hits the best of us unfortunately. The amount of spam on Tailrank vs other sites is amazingly low…