On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:14:16AM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:29:25PM +0200, H. Langos wrote: > > > > the next step would be to update the mediwiki software to 1.11.1 if you have > > $wgEnableAPI = true, that is. (i know it is only a XSS that hits internet > > explorer users .. but hey, they are people, too ;-) > > I will update to 1.14.0. This is the current version, and it is > also used by wiki.kernel.org (there is a secret plan to eventually > move the wiki there). And all the shiny new anti-spam extensions > don't seem to work with 1.11 anymore... reCAPTCHA seems to work with anything newer than 1.7. > > if i remember right, the linuxtv wiki only allows editing to registered > > users. therefore you could simply temporarily disable new user registration > > and enable editing again for registered users. > > I will do the update first. > > > then i'd suggest installing the reCAPTCHA extention. not only will it > > prevent bots from registering, you also help to digitize old books. > > > > http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ > > Looked at that and noticed they don't provide any statement > regarding confidentiality / data protection. Who knows if > they aren't creating a huge database of who did what in Wikis > and Blogs around the net... I'd rather take a look at the code to see what kind of data is sent off-site. My guess is that there isn't any identification data involved at all. but you are right. they could add that to their faq. OTAH they are a university project and probably didn't approach the whole thing with sufficient paranoia to think about such a question ;-) > Besides that, this wouldn't have stopped the present attack > since the bot used does a manual login assisted by a human user. > To thwart that I'd have to enable the captcha for every page save... hmm, manualy asisted bots are nasty. but maybe there is a way to lower the limit of edits that can be done automatically. maybe a soft limit that would trigger captcha usage way before hitting the hard limit that stoped the bot this time.... cheers -henrik -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
