Archive for November, 2007
BlogSecurity Earns Technorati Top 10K
Its the small achievements that often motivate us onto greater things. BlogSecurity earned a place in the blog top 10K according to Technorati.
We are going to party and enjoy the moment as well as save this image :) Thanks to everyone who has contributed thus far, I think BlogSec has really released some awesome content [...]
New breed of comment spam
It was only a few days ago that BlogSecurity released a post about SEO Egghead getting spammed, today it seems alot more power blogs are suffering the same fate.
It was bound to start happening: Spam is getting smarter according to BlogHerald who announced a short time ago that they were having trouble keeping comment spam [...]
Choosing the right anti-spam solution
One of the awesome ideas behind blogging is the ability to allow feedback in the form of comments. Unfortunately, 2 in 3 comments are spam. So a number of solutions have been made available that combat spam in different ways, however, some methods can really annoy your users and limit long-term feedback.
Captcha – Also known [...]
Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam Image CAPTCHA bypass
Mustlive is at it again. This time he has found 2 methods to bypass Peter’s Anti-Spam plugin.
These are the details as posted to BlogSecurity by Mustlive:
1. Constant values bypass method
Captcha has only 10 values (constant): from antiselect=1 to antiselect=10. So it’s easy for an automated program to find out what code is needed for current [...]
SEO Egghead Blog gets hit with spam
Jaimie Sirovich of SEO Egghead has reported that his blog was attacked by spam is claiming that it is due to an an HTML insertion vulnerability which affects WP 2.3 and the latest version 2.3.1. Unfortunately, he has not provided any further details, so we cannot look into this further.
When we do a Google search [...]
