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rcain replied to the topic 2 new forum sections – devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas 10 years, 10 months ago
ps. we also use (dreaded) captcha fields (plugin) on forms, but have noted of late there are bots out there (eg: XRummer, et al) scraping such captcha images off the web in order to seed simple AI scripts to bypass such protection. pretty clever stuff & born out by what we see in our logs.
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rcain replied to the topic 2 new forum sections – devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas 10 years, 10 months ago
@bp-help
good suggestions. thx. 2 of them r new to me, so other people may find them helpful also.
on our sites we r using::
Keith Graham’s most excellent ‘stop-spammer-registrations-plugin’ – https://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/
– has stopped over 53,000 spammers since feb this year! it uses external lookups on…[Read more]
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rcain started the topic 2 new forum sections – devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas 10 years, 10 months ago
‘Security’, is a major concern of mine at present. Spending much time devising and implementing countermeasures to mushrooming volumes of increasingly highly sophisticated attacks against customer sites.
I have just been rereading @foxly ‘s excellent (old) posts here: https://buddypress.org/support/topic/here-come-the-spammers/ – also of hacker…[Read more]
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rcain posted on the forum topic New user Registration Problem — NO Confirmation Mail in the group Installing BuddyPress: 13 years, 9 months ago
Hi Chaps – just to let you all know, you are not alone in this quest. We have customers running BP sites who need to ‘re-capture’ ‘lost/unconfirmed’ user registrations (attempts). A high proportion of confirmation emails do get filtered into peoples spam buckets, bounced by firewalls and blacklists, overlooked in the inbox, whatever. Its an […]
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rcain joined the group Installing BuddyPress 13 years, 9 months ago
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