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· 2w ago

The PyLadiesCon web portal was spammed. 2,249 fake accounts created. Four months before anybody noticed. My write up and reflection about this incident. https://mariatta.ca/posts/pyladiescon-portal-spam-accounts/ #Python #Django #PyLadies #PyLadiesCon

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The PyLadiesCon Portal Was Spammed: 2,249 Fake Accounts. Four Months Before Anyone Noticed

A post-mortem: a bot created 2,249 fake accounts on the PyLadiesCon portal to use it as a spam relay. Nobody noticed until four months later. What happened, why it worked, why it went undetected, and what changed.

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