Yay for Virtualisation
Spammers Don’t Stop For Christmas
While most of us are feeling well and truly stuffed from the mammoth amount of turkey and trimmings we’ve consumed over the afternoon spammers continue to unleash their rubbish on unsuspecting boards across the Internet.
Thanks to the invention of automated posting bots the spam barrage continues, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for 365 (366 if we’re making the leap
) days a year. Let’s take a look at a couple of statistics from my honeypots over the festive 24 hour period:
- 40 spam accounts registered for the boards
- The spammers posted 35 posts over the 24 hour period in 30 topics
However most spam posted seems to be pretty automated, so maybe the head honchos of spam give the human spammers the day off; we can at least hope they do
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Merry Christmas
Scotland phpBB Meet
Remember the highly successful and entertaining Londonvasion held in June of this year? Well, Daniel (Greenweaver) and Kenny (cherekoee red) have decided to hold a general phpBB get-together and meet up in Scotland next January
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If you are available and interested in attending there are numerous phpBB team members that will be popping along including Raimon, camm15h, NeoThermic, ToonArmy as well as everyone’s favourite nub
Paul. I’ll also be attending so come and join the fun.
As with any event like this, it doesn’t matter if you are a novice or an expert; everyone is welcome to attend, socialise and learn more about the great community we call phpBB.
For more information on when and where it is see the topic located in the events section over at phpBB.com. If you want more details then I’m sure Daniel or Kenny will be happy to answer any questions either in the topic or via PM
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