On the Soapbox

I'm starting to log the number of blog comment-spam attacks that are launched against this blog. Can you guess how many attempts¹ there were over the past 12 hours?

Answer: 66.

So that's about 5 per hour. And it extrapolates to nearly one thousand blog spams per week. There is also a very healthy IP address diversity; there are only a few IP addresses that launch more than one attempt; most of the addresses are unique. These IP addresses also span the globe and come from every continent (to my surprise, even Africa, where there aren't many computers). These are the trademarks of a botnet. And if this is what a small, obscure and low-traffic site like mine gets, I hesitate to imagine what the big blogs experience.

BTW, this is a very good article that people (especially laypeople) should definitely read because it is one of the few articles that actually paints a fairly accurate picture (vs. the inaccurate crap that comes out of the mainstream media) of what computer security nowadays is really all about.

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¹ None were successful, of course. :)