[Scons-dev] Wiki down again

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 08:25:44 EDT 2015


Can they be more accurate where exactly the vulnerability is? IIRC we
have 1.9.8 version (latest) installed, so if there is an exploit, the
upstream should be notified too.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com> wrote:
> Pair said it was an exploited attack on the wiki script itself this time,
> which is worse.  Usually it's "just" excessive load due to spammers trying
> to create pages, which is basically a DoS.
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:13 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:56 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Wiki is down again due to invalid permissions.  I assume more DOS
>> > attacks.
>> > We should consider changing providers or something...
>>
>> First, let's have some proof that it is DOS attack. Do you have access
>> to logs and
>> statistics?
>>
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