{"id":45248,"date":"2025-06-25T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=45248"},"modified":"2025-06-25T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T16:46:13","slug":"site-issue-due-to-spammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angry.net\/blog2\/?p=45248","title":{"rendered":"Site issue due to spammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone. This is the Angry Systems Administrator. It’s been a while since I posted anything. I’ve been quietly toiling away in the background. Tuesday June 24, the site went down for the first time in quite a while.<\/p>\n

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The reason for this was the site IP address being blocked by the hosting services firewall. The reason for this was simple and very annoying. Over the previous 24 hours, I saw a number of Mailer Daemon bounce message from one of the email accounts we have kicking around.<\/p>\n

When I saw this, I logged into the administrative system and changed the password on the offending account. However, the hosting services automated system decided to block the IP. This, of course, killed all access to the site along with the access to the administrative tools.<\/p>\n

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I had to open a support ticket and the hosting service cleared the block. I went in to the email account, changed the password again and locked it down. It can no longer send out email.<\/p>\n

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This email account isn’t used for much anymore. Occasionally the Idiot in Charge<\/del><\/em> The Angry Webmaster will use it when he has to register for something or other and doesn’t want to use his email address.<\/p>\n

In any case, that email account is restricted and shouldn’t be a problem any longer. If it should happen again, I’ll just blow it away. I do think it might be a bit difficult for a hacker to try and brute force the account again, if that is what happened. The password is set to ludicrous complexity.<\/p>\n

We apologize for the down time and if you got something from us from an @angry.net address, we have apologize for that as well. I suspect the Iranians might be playing games since their plans to nuke us just went up in smoke.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your time<\/p>\n\"1\"2\"3\"4\"5 (3<\/strong> votes, average: 5.00<\/strong> out of 5)
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~The Angry Systems Administrator~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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