BuddyPress.org | rcain | Activity https://buddypress.org/members/rcain/activity/ Activity feed for rcain. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:04:01 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a65438de000ce0847602a8eaff704853 rcain replied to the topic 2 new forum sections - devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas http://buddypress.org/support/topic/2-new-forum-sections-devoted-to-security-performance-please/#post-166077 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:22:03 +0000 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.

]]> acdf71ad0fdafd6adccfbf1b3e9c8664 rcain replied to the topic 2 new forum sections - devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas http://buddypress.org/support/topic/2-new-forum-sections-devoted-to-security-performance-please/#post-166075 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:09:01 +0000 @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’ – http://wordpress.org/plugins/stop-spammer-registrations-plugin/

– has stopped over 53,000 spammers since feb this year! it uses external lookups on…[Read more]

]]> ec1aca59802e773e0a97c0b6c265f3a5 rcain started the topic 2 new forum sections - devoted to 'Security' & 'Performance, please in the forum Ideas http://buddypress.org/support/topic/2-new-forum-sections-devoted-to-security-performance-please/ Thu, 13 Jun 2013 05:48:36 +0000 ‘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: http://buddypress.org/support/topic/here-come-the-spammers/ – also of hacker…[Read more]

]]> 7065e1e78e02210a80c82902bd749d02 rcain posted on the forum topic New user Registration Problem --- NO Confirmation Mail in the group Installing BuddyPress http://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/new-user-registration-problem-no-confirmation-mail/#post-63590 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:51:23 +0000 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 […]

]]> 684cd5190fa416a6855cb9708011f885 rcain joined the group Installing BuddyPress https://buddypress.org/updates/p/30362/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:51:23 +0000 0