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I was quite surprised to find my server had been somewhat “compromised” so to speak. I was always focused on fighting spam in email, but overlooked other vulnerabilities. Occasionally I would happen to notice strange wiki entry references in the logs. I never put two and two together until today. I used group permissions to override the default “unauthenticated user” and only permit those authorized users to post. I wandered through the pages of spam and was cleaning up my Gmail account. It’s a good thing I took a look. Over the years, I’ve only had a few messages that were flagged as spam, but were actually “good” messages. On the other hand, there have been less than a handful of spam that have gotten through. That is more than commendable, and for me anyhow, Gmail has one of the best spam filter systems out there. Until now… I’ve finally terminated the Bigfoot.com email address I’ve had for years. I’ve just had enough of the spam they generated, or passed through, even while paying for their premium services. Statistics I kept showed far more spam was delivered than was stopped. |    | |||||
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