Archive for February, 2008

A bunch of trackback spam from the stash

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Running a blog means that the software is constantly under a barrage of exploit / spam attemps, as is the case with any webservice.

I have a few hooks and traps spread around to sniff out what’s coming in, especially in HTTP POSTs. So, without further ado the following items are from a trap that’s logging trackback spams:

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Are Nigerians Evolving From The 419 Letters?

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

I was going through my access logs to see what nasties have been thrown at me since the last time.

Amongst the normal enter_your_RFI_exploit_here I saw this script being pushed onto the server:

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