by Joseph Forbes | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog Entry
I’m a huge fan of Reddit. And therefore I should express myself through my own and someday submit the post on Reddit… for KARMA! However I’m not a karma guy, and I’d much prefer to just post here on my own site to use as an example for...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 8, 2013 | Blog Entry
Spam sucks. Any site which allows unauthenticated users to submit forms will have a problem with spamming software (spambots) submitting junk content. A common technique to prevent spambots is CAPTCHA, which requires people to perform a task (usually noisy text...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog Entry
Early this month I had to remove some malware from some of my hosted WordPress sites. The malicious code was there for a little while and the sites were blacklisted by google. That’s how we noticed it. I recently added all our sites to Google’s Webmaster Tools,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, SECURITY
Fixing a website “hack” is actually a fairly heavy technical thing to do. Most bloggers are not webmasters. They are not really technical people. They’re probably people who simply purchased a web hosting account, maybe set up WordPress using a one-click install, and...
