Over the last week I have seen a large increase in random users signing up to my forums. They are random bots who are tracking down sites and sending an automated signup. The problem with my forums is that they are powered by phpbb, which is one of the most common scripts out there. This means that it is more prone to such an attack.

Matt over at photomatt.net has started receiving large amounts of spam through his own contact script! (one that he wrote himself).

This increase in spam through online forms is a worry and can be somewhat harder to stop. From now on we’re going to be seeing a lot more annoying image generators where you must enter in the random number before you can continue. I must admit I really dislike them, but it seems to be the only way to stop such an attack.

This is just going to make the internet a more annoying tool to use. Unfortunately everything is going online; Soon we’ll be getting spam on our phones (http://www.joahua.com/blog/2004/09/26/freetel-are-evil).