From 1950 to 1967, a TV show called
What's My Line had a Mystery Guest come before a sometimes blindfolded panel, often disguising their voice. The object of the "20 Questions" game was for the panel to guess the person's identity or their profession.
For the last three weeks, someone has been trying to log into the two active forums at Arimecibo Island using phony email addresses. I originally uploaded SMF 2.1RC4 to the server without doing much of any modification, since it was not meant to be an active forum. Member registration was immediate. When SMF released SMF 2.1.0, I upgraded to that version, but forgot to change the registration to "Email verification". Some jackass spammed a bunch of horseshit, which I deleted and then banned those accounts. I did change the registration mode when I saw those. I clean out the error log when I see these, so I know when the new ones come in. Whoever it is spoofs their IP address after a few failed attempts, but these are within minutes of each other.
SMF 2.0.x does not log the email address for failed logins, but SMF 2.1.x does. Some of those email address are the ones I banned, but the jackass keeps trying the
Brute-force Attack on both forums. You'd think the jackass would have learned by now. I occasionally check the error log here, but I have not seen that same activity here. There are a number of spam entries in the DB&G error log, but this is not the same.
I do not usually chase down error log entries, since most of them are "Unspecified". A lot of them involve the same line of code in the same file, so they may be related to a modification that was made after the software was installed.
