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I'm a 25 year old web monkey living in Malaysia. I write about web design, IT, programming, Linux, Open Source, Wildlife, Politics and much more.
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New Kind Of Comment Spam Targeting Wordpress
Today I discovered a new type of attempted comment spam targeting my Wordpress blog. The spam bot managed to figure out a section of a legitimate comment and then immitate it and then append a spam link to the end. Technically this is quite eas...
Windows SMTP Service In Windows Server 2003: Relay Spam
When you enable the Windows SMTP service in Windows Server 2003 you might think the default options are secure enough. Think again. The SMTP service is pre-configured to operate as a relay server for spam! Yo have to configure it to not act as a s...
Wordpress Anti-Spam Security Tips
Many automated web bots (bad ones that spam up blogs) may directly be able to access the Wordpress file wp-comments-post.php by sending GET or POST data to it. If you see hits come up in your log files for the file wp-comments-post.php then you can...
Fix Wordpress Databases Infected With Spam Links By Automated Hacking Bots
Users of Wordpress 2.1 and possibly other versions have been the target of automated spam attacks - which are actually hacks against your site. The hacker has automatically targeted sites using 2.1 using a robot that exploits vulnerabilities in the ...
