Author Topic: Al Qaeda Sleeper Cells  (Read 2412 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Kevin Mahoney

  • Gotten my hands dirty on bikes more than once -
  • Global Moderator
  • Grand Gearhead
  • *****
  • Posts: 3,584
  • Karma: 0
  • Cozy Sidecar distributor/former Royal Enfield dist
on: June 18, 2014, 04:34:36 pm
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.  ;D 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.
Best Regards,
Kevin Mahoney
www.cyclesidecar.com