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• PunBB Akismet Spam Plugin

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sat 18 Oct 2008 at 11:22

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Comments

  1 comment

  Those of you who are members of the Lowter Forums (which I highly encourage you to become) may have noticed the huge increase in spam in the past few weeks. It got to the point where we were just pruning the New Users forum in order to remove the spam from the site as quickly as possible. Months after Matt showed me the Akismet plugin for PunBB (the forum software we use), I finally got around to installing the plugin and tackling the spam problem we've been having. Some spam still gets through the filter, but overall it catches almost all o…

• Password Security

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Thu 27 Sep 2007 at 19:50

  Type

  Blog Entry

  A forum thread on Lowter a few weeks ago brought up the matter of password security. For most web developers, I think, the issue of password security is not the top on the list. Most of the time, password security is satisfied with a simple MD5 hash. Personally, I do not know much about password security other than a few articles I have read. Due to the forum thread, I have been trying to verse myself in the matter now. Take a look at the forum thread and this page on password security because they have some really useful information..…

• SQL Injections

  Author

  Douglas Brunner

  Date

  Sun 5 Mar 2006 at 22:10

  Type

  Article

  Allowing users to input unescaped data into your application can lead to the dangerous vulnerability of a SQL injection. SQL injections can completely cripple your database, making them a major security risk. Here Doug discusses what SQL injections are and some practical methods to prevent them.

• Securities in Macs

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 9 Oct 2005 at 16:16

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Comments

  3 comments

  Philip Miseldine is a recent Macintosh converter, around the same time as myself. Like most Apple users, he does not worry about computer viruses, and does not run any virus protection software. He recently wrote a blog entry about the security advantages in OS X. I have never worried about security on my computers, mainly because I chose more secure software. Windows has one main weakness - Internet Explorer. Even on a Windows platform you can secure yourself through the one port for viruses - the Internet. Using Opera/M2 and Firefox/T…

• Generating Random Passwords

  Author

  Matthew Durnan

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 7:39

  Type

  Article

  Have you ever needed to generate a random password, for example when a user forgets his/her password? Create a PHP function that generates random passwords with a specified amount of characters.