Blocking Wordpress comment spammers by User-Agent
I have been plagued with automated comment spam lately, it is still at a level where its managable manually but..... I am lazy. The comment message itself is nearly always along the lines of: PLAIN...
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After my previous post on the subject of comment spam, I decided to use the might of Google to see how many sites have fallen prey to comment spamming bots. Given that the phrases “my parents didnt...
View ArticleWP Plugin » SpamKit Plugin 0.0 – Time-Based-Tokens to Fight Spam
This is the first release and prototype of SpamKit for Wordpress. SpamKit was written by Gerard Calderhead; it’s a PHP library that uses secure time-based-tokens to aid validating form post’s and can...
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After my recent release of SpamKit Plugin I have been contemplating the whole spam problem in much greater depth. Gerry highlighted one major problem with my SpamKit plugin itself – trackbacks are...
View ArticleWP Plugin » SpamKit Plugin 0.1 – Time-Based-Tokens to Fight Spam
This is a minor release of SpamKit Plugin to address an easy-to-fix problem where Trackbacks from the same blog or server get treated as spam because they don't include the time-based token. This is...
View ArticleWP Plugin » SpamKit Plugin 0.2 – Time-Based-Tokens to Fight Spam
This is a minor release of SpamKit Plugin to update Gerry's TBT code which now incorporates the IP address from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] into the validation. This is checked into Subversion over at...
View ArticleWP Plugin » SpamKit Plugin 0.3 – Time-Based-Tokens to Fight Spam
This is a(nother) minor release of SpamKit Plugin which provides some cool new features. This is checked into Subversion over at WP-Plugins.org and you can download the new version here...
View ArticleAnalysis of Spamming Zombie Botnets
Since writing my SpamKit Plugin I have been keeping a keen eye on the comment/trackback spam subject and have guinea pig’d my ideas on my own blog. Recently I noticed a distinct change in the...
View ArticleWP Plugin » SpamKit Plugin 0.4 – Time-Based-Tokens to Fight Spam
This is a pretty significant release of SpamKit Plugin which provides some cool new features. This is checked into Subversion over at WP-Plugins.org and you can download the new version here...
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