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Mike Meynell
(@mikem)
Posts: 875
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All very amusing... the site seems to be under a concerted hacking attempt at the moment... hundreds of attempts to log in as "admin" over the last few days (there is a fundamental problem with this hacking approach, but I won't share it, for obvious reasons!)..

Why would anyone target an astronomy society website? Some people really do need to get a life.

 
Posted : 04/11/2014 7:54 am
Andy Sawers
(@andy-sawers)
Posts: 742
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Death by black hole spaghettification is too good for these people.

 
Posted : 04/11/2014 8:51 am
Tej
 Tej
(@tej)
Posts: 636
Honorable Member
 

Well I was hoping for more visitors but not that kind!

Just to rub it in, they are most likely auto bots, not even human visitors, lol. They just scour any forum site that looks like a forum. So we need a digital black hole for them!

 
Posted : 04/11/2014 12:31 pm
Christina Chester
(@christinachester)
Posts: 215
Estimable Member
 

Ah, good. We've attracted someone with nothing better to do with their time!

 

Here's a black hole as requested:

 

 

 
Posted : 06/11/2014 9:17 pm
Simon Hurst
(@simon)
Posts: 49
Eminent Member
 

script kiddies bain of the webmaster have had similar things last week on the couple of websites I run they had no luck either 😀

 
Posted : 17/11/2014 9:12 am
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