02-17-2015, 06:39 PM
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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Someone's Trying to Access my Account
I thought I should message the mods about this, but a notice to the community as a whole would probably be in everyone's best interest.
I just got an email from CP saying someone attempted to log into my account but failed 5 times and are currently locked out for 15 minutes.
The IP address is 117.169.1.56 and looks like it's from China.
Is it possible to ban this IP?
Like who the heck wants to be me?
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02-17-2015, 07:37 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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I can ban the IP but it'll just come from another one. Not much can be done, fortunately they only get a few attempts.
There's a thread here:
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=143997
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02-17-2015, 07:58 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Edmonton,AB
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i think they got into 18flames account got a weird message from them...
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02-17-2015, 09:04 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Calgary
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Someone's Trying to Access my Account
^Same here
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02-17-2015, 09:08 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Yes....me too. And they may have said some horrible things about the whole lot of you..... 
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02-17-2015, 09:54 PM
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Franchise Player
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Just changed my password from abcde to my bank code 12345 that was close!
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02-18-2015, 05:06 AM
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Has lived the dream!
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Where I lay my head is home...
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Weird that they'd be hacking CP accounts. I guess that personal info could be found anywhere? Sure it's all bot and script anyway, trolling the internet for passwords and credit info.
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02-18-2015, 05:57 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Syracuse, NY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
Just changed my password from abcde to my bank code 12345 that was close!
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That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!
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02-18-2015, 08:11 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Edmonton,AB
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they'll never guess my password it's the price of a cheese pizza and a large soda back where I used to work panucci's pizza
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02-18-2015, 01:39 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I thought I should message the mods about this, but a notice to the community as a whole would probably be in everyone's best interest.
I just got an email from CP saying someone attempted to log into my account but failed 5 times and are currently locked out for 15 minutes.
The IP address is 117.169.1.56 and looks like it's from China.
Is it possible to ban this IP?
Like who the heck wants to be me?
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Wait, how do we know you're the real Maritime Q-Scout?
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02-18-2015, 08:11 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: Nov 2014
Exp: 
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You'd be amazed at how fast Chinese hackers attack.
Put in a new firewall at work, accidentally left port 22 forwarded on one IP address to a utility Linux box. It was supposed to be open to a single IP address, but I didn't notice that it didn't paste in (I blame sleep deprivation  ), and I just saved the rule. about 2 hours later they were in using an account with a non-default but not hugely secure password. They tested sending 4 phishing email out (this box was allowed to relay through our mail server, now it still is but only to 2 domains), and luckily I spotted them and nuked 'em. Could have been worse. Friggin Chinese hackers... I learned a few lessons about lax security.
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02-18-2015, 10:14 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Yeah, recent CentOS versions will tell you how many invalid login attempts there were since the last time you logged in successfully, it's not unusual to have thousands if not tens of thousands attempts per day.
I'm just surprised that this tactic is at all economical for them, even with cheap Chinese labour. Gold farming in WoW seems like it would be much more worth while; they've managed to get into a single account and send a few dozen spam PMs for a week's worth of trying.
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02-21-2015, 08:58 AM
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Ben
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: God's Country (aka Cape Breton Island)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MickMcGeough
Wait, how do we know you're the real Maritime Q-Scout?
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Best proof I can give you is that I'm currently drunk. Someone Habs me another Tsingtao!
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02-22-2015, 07:08 PM
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And I Don't Care...
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The land of the eternally hopeful
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Quote:
Originally Posted by photon
Yeah, recent CentOS versions will tell you how many invalid login attempts there were since the last time you logged in successfully, it's not unusual to have thousands if not tens of thousands attempts per day.
I'm just surprised that this tactic is at all economical for them, even with cheap Chinese labour. Gold farming in WoW seems like it would be much more worth while; they've managed to get into a single account and send a few dozen spam PMs for a week's worth of trying.
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Perhaps I'm naive about this stuff but what is the purpose of these types of attacks? I don't get it.
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02-22-2015, 07:33 PM
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Ass Handler
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Okotoks, AB
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If someone wants my CP account that badly, they can have it.
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02-22-2015, 07:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Krack Korn
Perhaps I'm naive about this stuff but what is the purpose of these types of attacks? I don't get it.
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Presumably, they do it so that they can get into the account of a known and trusted member of the board and send out a private message from that account to as many users as possible with a link to whatever it is they're trying to sell.
People are more likely to click a "Hey, I thought you might be interested in this..." type message from someone they know (even if it's just through a user name on a message board) than just random spam.
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02-22-2015, 09:27 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Yeah for people trying to gain access to a forum account, PM spam. They got into one account and managed to send out a few messages.
As for people trying to gain access to the server, that's usually spam as well though that's setting up the server as a SMTP relay or some such so they can send spam emails out for a while until the provider (well, Vox in our case) shuts our account down or otherwise stops them from spamming.
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