WordPress 2.3.3 Spam Exploit

If you run a wordpress blog, you should be reading Blogsecurity. This is the feed I use, that only includes the wordpress advisories. I think it's a damn shame that this feed isn't included in the wordpress planet that's syndicated across everyone's dashboard. Security is ...

Defensio

Defensio launched their public beta today. I've been part of the private beta for a couple months now, after openly criticizing Akismet. Defensio is a similar tool, so it does fall prey to the same "wisdom of crowds" weaknesses. Defensio's usability ...

Ron Paul, Spammer

I'm not voting for ron paul. not just because i'm not voting republican. In the past week, i've recieved half a dozen blog spam comments mentioning his stance on the iraq war, and then linking to his site. Unlike most of the spam comments i recieve, it ...

Save your contact page from spam

there are a couple of different methods for blocking email harvesting bots from your contact page. Some involve javascript and obfuscating the email address. some involve putting the address in an image. my new favorite trick involves both.
first, go get your email address turned into escaped ...

Telling Jesus to go to hell

alright, Mullenweig, you win. It's finally worth the effort for me to take Owen's advice and installed X-Dashboard. You would have thought that it had been asked for enough times. You would have thought that the recent wp-hackers waffling over the inclusion of ...