The most common excuse I can find for not upgrading is that it breaks plugins. Sorry but security is more important than playing a YouTube video. This blog has gone from V6 of WordPress all the way up to 2.8.4 when a plugin broke (once) I fixed it. Now the wordpress team cannot test every [...]
I was having a quick look through some of my posts to make sure everything was ok and noted that bullet lists were not showing.
wp-spamfree works and is highly recommended.
At 5am this morning every single one of my articles across 3 blogs got a single spam. each was from a unique IP address (Added to my list here) It has given me quite a bit of info to assist me in my anti-spam routines. looking to have some results shortly.
I don’t get a lot of comment spam if you just look at the numbers but it does make up over 99.9% of comments so I find it extremely tedious. This page here has a lot interesting techniques for reducing spam and is worth a read. I will be developing some additional code to integrate [...]
I am now generating a list of all spammers IP’s as found on this blog and my FullTiming blog. You can find this Here I have only started this today and will be adding to it periodically. It is not sorted and as the list gets longer there may be duplicates.
I got a server 500 Error when accessing the akismet spam filter. Checking the logs and I could see the error was ModSecurity: Output filter: Response body too large (over limit of 524288, total not specified) To correct this edit this file /etc/httpd/modsecurity.d/modsecurity_crs_10_config.conf Look for the line SecResponseBodyLimit 524288 I just added a leading 1 [...]
Fed up of a Persistant spammer, This is how to RickRoll Persistant WordPress Spammers.
Just re-read the title and it sounds like science fiction B movie title.. Oh well. After running this for a while and having played with all the possible options in WordPress here is my final Mod_Security custom file.
Mod Security exceptions for WordPress, yet another addition.