Good news of the day: Slashdot (and others) report that Scam-linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out.

I haven't been following their activities recently, since I had all their IP addresses blocked anyway. Oh, and I'm sure we'll hear from them again ...

I ranted about those stupid script kiddies and their fruitless yet annoying attempts to exploit something that isn't there before. Of course that didn't change a thing - we're still seeing more than 20% of the requests on our webserver being inclusion attempts.

A new variation, however, is the use of ftp: links for the inclusion attempt: read more

For the last 2 or 3 days, someone has been sending out spam emails with faked email addresses @project.geeklog.net. Nothing new here, happens all the time, and if you own a domain, it'll happen to you eventually. On my own domains, I simply forward the catchall to a GMail account (hey, finally something to fill up those 6 GB!). On geeklog.net, however, we can't do that for various reasons. And so we're drowning in bounces now. read more

This made me chuckle:

Subject: We're serious about fun.
From: lupeconclusivevinson AT 34-menopause-symptoms.com

Yeah, sure sounds like fun to me. To each his (her?) own, I guess ... read more

Script kiddies are stupid - or they wouldn't be script kiddies. Okay. But even the most dense script kiddie, in control of a few hundred bots, should eventually realize that the web doesn't work like real-life objects. Or so you would think.

Let's see: read more