Results tagged “security”
Movable Type Pro: Now With Comments!
We've always tried to keep a sense of humor about ourselves at Six Apart, and not take our work or ourselves too seriously. Last week, when we released the widely-acclaimed Movable Type Pro, we included a short video that...
Movable Type 3.33/MT Enteprise 1.03 patches
Today we released a mandatory security update for Movable Type and Movable Type Enterprise to resolve a number of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities. To make updating your system easier, we are providing patch distributions for Movable Type versions 3.32 and Movable...
Tracking Down a Comment Spammer
PC World's Andrew Brandt went to work tracking down a comment spammer, following a link from a single piece of comment spam blocked from their Movable Type-powered blog, and discovering a watned criminal. Like the work Ann Elisabeth is doing...
Making Progress Against Spam
The fight against comment and TrackBack spam is an ongoing battle, and it's worth reviewing some of the new options available for managing the attacks. Since our last roundup, which covered many mod_security options as well as the DSBL plugin,...
PWNtcha captcha decoder
One site that's been getting a lot of attention of late is PWNtcha, a project which is demonstrating the inefficiency of many of the CAPTCHA systems designed to verify human identity. CAPTCHA is still, of course, a useful tool, but...
mod_security for protecting your blog
In light of the coverage that the Register's interview with a link spammer is getting, it's worth reviewing some of the host-level changes that can be made to protect against these attacks. Foremost among the options is mod_security. You can...
