Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013
As I am sure most of you are aware, spam, in the case of unsolicited advertising or off-topic posting as opposed to the processed meat, and bots, the ones that remotely attempt to do stuff on your site, are two of the largest problems for any website that allows comments, signups, creation of content or such like. I have recently been looking into ways to prevent spam and bot-based site registrations in Drupal 7, as on several sites we were experiencing that Captcha’s were simply not preventing enough. ...
Friday, Dec 31, 2010
After the recent period of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks on sites which appear to have been linked to Wikileaks; PayPal, Mastercard, Amazon etc. A question arose to me. Is there any way that a business can prevent themselves from being vunerable to DDoS attacks.
Now to define a DDoS attack. Wikipedia defines it as “an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users” (DoS Wiki). To use an analogy, if we think of a server as a plughole in a sink. ...
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