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rcain replied to the topic 2 new forum sections – devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas 11 years, 5 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.
rcain replied to the topic 2 new forum sections – devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas 11 years, 5 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]
rcain started the topic 2 new forum sections – devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas 11 years, 5 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]
rcain posted on the forum topic New user Registration Problem — NO Confirmation Mail in the group Installing BuddyPress: 14 years, 4 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 […]
rcain joined the group Installing BuddyPress 14 years, 4 months ago