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Sabre Plugin for WordPress is working well!
Thanks Didier! Sabre appears to work! This screenshot shows two registration bot attacks on my Crawling Chaos site from Russia. This plugin just saves so much time. I just have to check occasionally...
View ArticleFake User Registration Spam Attack Bastards
It’s all in the title really! However, the point of this post is that I have a few domains and it looks like the robot(s) are set up by alphabetical order, not IP order. Here’s how: Two weeks ago and...
View ArticleWordPress User Registration Spam
I’ve had quite a few search enquiries and hits for komatoz.net on my sites recently so there are obviously a lot of people suffering out there with spamming and registration problems that I’ve...
View ArticleRevised IP Address Block List in htaccess
#who has access who doesnt order allow,deny deny from 58.78.6.60 deny from 80.234.5.164 deny from 80.234.5.225 deny from 80.234.10.70 deny from 87.118.112.50 deny from 88.200.147.73 deny from...
View ArticleCaptcha Broken says Matt, I agree!
….That’s what I’ve determined empirically recently. Matt’s (WordPress prime mover) post here and this article in the Guardian mention the various failings of CAPTCHA. It’s the kind of thing that’s...
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How Many Blog Spam Bastards Have I Actually Blocked?
Well it’s hard to say, actually. I run this site on WordPress which dynamically uses a backend database and various plugins. The thing is that I chop and change the various blocking systems for...
View ArticleWordPress Comments Settings Turned Down
Just for a while I’ve closed down the open comments access a bit (but not completely) until the splurge of spam has passed that started last night. For some reason, Akismet etc missed a lot....
View ArticleTrouble with eclub.lv and Browsers
WordPress User Registration Spam Last year I told how I tackled various sorts of spam hitting the website, in particular, in this post, User Registration Spam. Even now, my main defence is SABRE,...
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Assange Given Ecuadorian Asylum
Assange Given Ecuadorian Asylum – but what next? Ecuador Assange Statement This is the full text released by Ecuador for their reasons for Assange’s successful application. See original text at the...
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Akismet and Jetpack Issues, Stop Spammers and CloudFlare Save the Day
My Web Host Penalised Me Yet Helped Speed Up My Site Introduction shared web hosting This site used to be hosted on Site5, in Texas. I had a shared web host account, about the cheapest there is on...
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