Are the posted questions getting worse?
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Security is fun, isn't it (not)
- Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:Phil Parkin wrote:
Out of interest, are the spammers (and their bots) using the standard GUI to create these posts, or is there a back door that they've hacked into?
No backdoor. They're using WGET/CURL quite a bit. We've blcoked those.
This isn't a hole, it's how the Internet works. Your browser does a GET, renders data, and when you click post/submit/etc, you send an HTTP POST (or PATCH) to the server. That HTTP POST can be automated (as can GETs) with various tools.
We've added some things looking for CLI tools as opposed to browsers, but potentially those can be spoofed. We're looking at other things
Thanks, Steve
That implies that they need a valid username to do the submit. Which brings us back round to whether it's possible to validate people with <n posts differently from others? Max one post per hour until 50 posts, perhaps?
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Certainly we're looking at other things. The incident is still open, though not a P1/Sev1 right now. My boss' boss is still pressuring the IT Director and staff to continue to work on this and find better ways to limit things.
I've also been barraged with SPAM submissions in a similar way, so throttles are something I'd like as well. If you want to send a few complaints/concerns and express yourselves, marketing @ red-gate is good one to hit.
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Hey I know we mostly just talk about SQL stuff here but I thought I would ask a job oriented question. Does anyone know anyone that could use a good quality SQL Developer for fairly low cost. I am semi-retired but would like to still help out others using my skills. I have developed with MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, MS Access and even MS Excel and could easily jump into just about any database software out there. However, getting this across to the folks that could possible use me is rather problematic with the AIs that most HR use. Also a deer kissed my car and so I am looking for remote work as I have no transportation at this time.
If you know of anyone feel free to give them my email address -- djensen765 at gmail
Thanks in advance either way.
- Dennis Jensen wrote:
Hey I know we mostly just talk about SQL stuff here but I thought I would ask a job oriented question. Does anyone know anyone that could use a good quality SQL Developer for fairly low cost. I am semi-retired but would like to still help out others using my skills. I have developed with MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, MS Access and even MS Excel and could easily jump into just about any database software out there. However, getting this across to the folks that could possible use me is rather problematic with the AIs that most HR use. Also a deer kissed my car and so I am looking for remote work as I have no transportation at this time.
If you know of anyone feel free to give them my email address -- djensen765 at gmail
Thanks in advance either way.
I don't know if any of the product teams at Allstate are looking, but check out Allstate dot com slash careers. We do fully remote work for most positions.
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Sooooo... Last post I got this error when I hit Submit.
"Error: Slow down; you move too fast."
Then it bounced me to the start of the thread instead of the last page.
I thought maybe I hit Submit twice by accident, so I typed up another post to comment on it, only hit Submit once, and got the same error. Apparently we have some spam prevention going on that is preventing fast typers from posting too many times as well.
Now that I see it, I know to watch for it and take a few minutes between each post.
Steve, what is the timeout on this? Apparently "a few minutes" isn't good enough because it still bounced me on my second attempt to post this reply.
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not sure if it is global, but spammers posts are having a delay of around 7 minutes.
I would expect IT to review how to implement this and potentially allow this delay to be bypassed/reduced for long time members / high(ish) activity posters.
- Brandie Tarvin wrote:
What is it with people claiming they are an 8 out of 10 on SQL Server, or in one case a 10 out of 10 on Oracle, and then not knowing how recovery models work with specific restore scenarios, how AG data movement works, or how to get the date and time from the server?
I mean, seriously. If you claim 10/10, you'd best have invented the platform and know things that no person interviewing you understands about the platform, right?
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Lots of people claim to be the GOAT in things, which is like 10/10.
I never think I'm there, even in things I'm very, very good at. I would tend to think 8/10 for me.
- Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Sooooo... Last post I got this error when I hit Submit.
"Error: Slow down; you move too fast."
Then it bounced me to the start of the thread instead of the last page.
I thought maybe I hit Submit twice by accident, so I typed up another post to comment on it, only hit Submit once, and got the same error. Apparently we have some spam prevention going on that is preventing fast typers from posting too many times as well.
Now that I see it, I know to watch for it and take a few minutes between each post.
Steve, what is the timeout on this? Apparently "a few minutes" isn't good enough because it still bounced me on my second attempt to post this reply.
No idea on timeout. I'm not sure there is on. It's posting and everything is a separate post. There might be some check to prevent dups, but noidea on what time has to pass
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Well, it's happening to me...
I'm starting to use AI. Granted, I used it to trim a resume down to 2 pages to fit the requirements of an online application system, but still, me, the "I still think we're going to end up with a cross between SKYNET and Talkie Toaster with this AI stuff." LoL
But at least it save me the aggravation of trying to modify the resume, although I still need to do a cross-check against the longer one to make sure the high-points are there.
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