Re: [Hampshire] CentOS DOJO in Aldershot this F5riday

[Paul Tansom]

** Stephen Davies  [2013-07-08 07:41]:
> 
>CentOS Dojo and Barbecue at Aldershot, UK, Friday 12th July 2013, 9:30am
> 
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Dojo/Aldershot2013
> 
> Cost £15.00 including a 'T' Shirt.
> 
> The location is within walking distance of where we used to meet in
> Aldershot (10 mins) but there is free parking in the area of the
> location.
> I'll be there.
** end quote [Stephen Davies]

Likewise, hoping to get there early enough to find some of this free parking :)

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Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot

[Chris Dennis]

Thanks to Benjie and Freaky Clown for the suggestions.

I've knocked together a WordPress plugin that does extra checks at new 
user registration, and only allows HantsLUG mailing list subscribers to 
register.


The plugin also uses the hidden form field trick to fool the spam bots 
-- that alone is currently keeping the bots out at a rate of about 10 an 
hour at the moment.


And, for luck, I've added the 'WP fail2ban' plugin.  In the last half 
hour that's logged four attempts to log in with user ids that had in any 
case been denied registration.


So, hopefully, that will keep it under control for a while.

cheers

Chris

On 02/07/13 12:41, Freaky Clown wrote:

In case this hasn't been covered before one of the most
impressively easy ways to combat this is to have a hidden form field on
the registration form, this field MUST remain blank for the form to be
accepted, most spam bots will auto fill this in yet humans will not even
see it - should knock out most of the spam.

combine with another form and its pretty fool proof



On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Benjie Gillam mailto:ben...@jemjie.com>> wrote:

You could make a very small plugin so only email addresses on the
mailing list can be used to register new members; this could be
combined with other "defences". It'd stop most of the automated
Wordpress registration scripts that are out there; though it
obviously wouldn't hold out a determined attacker since all they
have to do is register with the mailing list to be allowed in...

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/registration_errors

Cheers,

Benjie.

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Re: [Hampshire] Spamalot

[Peter B.]

Mate well done!

Pour yourself a beer and go out into the sun.  Seems you have been hard at
it.

Kudos

Pete
 On 8 Jul 2013 17:57, "Chris Dennis"  wrote:

> Thanks to Benjie and Freaky Clown for the suggestions.
>
> I've knocked together a WordPress plugin that does extra checks at new
> user registration, and only allows HantsLUG mailing list subscribers to
> register.
>
> The plugin also uses the hidden form field trick to fool the spam bots --
> that alone is currently keeping the bots out at a rate of about 10 an hour
> at the moment.
>
> And, for luck, I've added the 'WP fail2ban' plugin.  In the last half hour
> that's logged four attempts to log in with user ids that had in any case
> been denied registration.
>
> So, hopefully, that will keep it under control for a while.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
>
> On 02/07/13 12:41, Freaky Clown wrote:
>
>> In case this hasn't been covered before one of the most
>> impressively easy ways to combat this is to have a hidden form field on
>> the registration form, this field MUST remain blank for the form to be
>> accepted, most spam bots will auto fill this in yet humans will not even
>> see it - should knock out most of the spam.
>>
>> combine with another form and its pretty fool proof
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Benjie Gillam > > wrote:
>>
>> You could make a very small plugin so only email addresses on the
>> mailing list can be used to register new members; this could be
>> combined with other "defences". It'd stop most of the automated
>> Wordpress registration scripts that are out there; though it
>> obviously wouldn't hold out a determined attacker since all they
>> have to do is register with the mailing list to be allowed in...
>>
>> http://codex.wordpress.org/**Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/**
>> registration_errors
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Benjie.
>>
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[Hampshire] [Admin] Meetings

[Tim Brocklehurst]

Hi guys,

I've been meaning to write this note for weeks, but I've been madly busy.

There are no meetings in July and August. The next meeting will be in 
September. I'll let you know the details when I have them.

Cheers,

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