Boys and Girls,
As you know we got a big spam attack. Big because it was more to delete than I cared to. Brother Rhett got on the case and fixed us up. Among other things he discovered "sleeper cells" which were probably placed by Al Qaeda some time ago.
Who knew? See below
Kevin,
Yes, I saw it too and turned it back off. There was a challenge question that was showing up on a lot of traffic. Forum Firewall is a newly-installed plug in I found and it seemed to be going bonkers on IP checking for no good reason so I disabled it again for now.
I think the other protections will be sufficient anyways.
I also scoured through and purged a HUGE amount of sleeper cells from the user database. We're talking hundreds, I think that's how a lot of these have happened: they just registered before we had much (or any) security in place at all and then waited and waited. So I think the attack surface should be much lower now just from that clean-up.