Learn Success With Randy Brown

Do it right the first time, stoopit.

Archive for the 'Security' Category

How We Block Proxies, Bots, Scrapers, Trolls & Assholes

As a website owner, you probably have at least a few good reasons to block bots and scrapers.  Scrapers steal your content and unruly bots can do anything from eating your bandwidth to trying to hack into your site. As a forum or community owner, you may also have reasons to block proxies.  Proxies are what [...]

22 August 2009 at 19:26 - Comments
daphne (1 comments)
How do you go about detecting elite proxies and blocking them?
7 November 09 at 03:00
Randy Brown (119 comments)
BadBehavior does a pretty good job of blocking elite proxies. I dont know if it blocks all of them, ...
7 November 09 at 09:23

Virtualpetlist.com p0wned, But Recovering

Don’t get p0wned!

16 July 2009 at 14:04 - Comments
View all 9 comments
Anonymous (15 comments)
Similar things have happened in virtual pet sites when an owner wants to relaunch a website... Also, I think "http://adoptpetsonline.com/boards/general-chat/8-controversy-virtual-pet-list.html" describes ...
26 July 09 at 02:00
Cpvr (5 comments)
Here is more information virtual pet list's press release
27 July 09 at 02:19

Is eHarmoney Scraping YOUR Site?

Why is eHarmony.com downloading sitemaps?!

22 December 2008 at 15:36 - Comments
Mustafa (1 comments)
Perhaps they were harvesting lead information, like your commenters' names and email addresses.. Just a thought..
22 December 08 at 16:59
Randy Brown (119 comments)
[quote comment="2129"]Perhaps they were harvesting lead information, like your commenters' names and email addresses.. Just a thought..[/quote] That was one of ...
23 December 08 at 08:41

Stop Spam With Mod_Security And RBL

How to configure Mod_security to use Real Time Black Lists (RBL)

7 December 2008 at 21:24 - Comments
Keith Fullerton (1 comments)
I have an easier way to get rid of spam. I never give out my real email address. I ...
10 December 08 at 19:18
Marc Perkel (1 comments)
I'm looking for a way to do an RBL but only on POST operations to reduce load.
24 December 08 at 09:33