I’ve mentioned that the blog has been hammered with spam attempts recently, but I thought nothing of it — it happens every now and again. And I thought that my own e-mail inbox was getting an abnormally large amount of spam as well, but GoddessJ’s young cousin recently had her Yahoo e-mail account hacked, so I figured it was all coming from that. But I just saw a note on a developer’s mailing list that everyone (or at least, a whole lot of people) has been getting hammered with tons of spam recently. I suspect it’s either an attempt to cash in on the holidays or a new bot-net… probably just (!) a holiday thing, given the timing.