RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-18 Thread Che Vilnonis
that are problematic. Many IP subnets are repeat offenders. ~Che -Original Message- From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:muse...@virtualtrials.com] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 6:38 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net I added another filter

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-17 Thread Al Musella, DPM
I added another filter today... I have always checked all form submissions for the bad keywords but I noticed that many of the attacks seem to start with them entering 1 or -1 as the first and or last name. Probably too lazy to put more keystrokes in when they are setting up the script. So now

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-17 Thread Les Mizzell
Anyone else seeing a lot of form submissions with -1 or 1 as the name? Yup - I get that sometimes. Or, an attempt to enter the same web or email address entered into EVERY field. and I'm still getting weird *something* errors sent to me from a site that look like:

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-16 Thread Rick Faircloth
the same hold true for session session variables? -Original Message- From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:muse...@virtualtrials.com] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 11:18 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net If they read in the form page

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-16 Thread Al Musella, DPM
You can set the session timeout to about 45 minutes and it should work.. if they try to submit the page using the same session the next day, it will time out. At 08:48 AM 2/16/2013, Rick Faircloth wrote: What would be an appropriate length of time for a session variable for a hacker who's

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-15 Thread Revolution
Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net As an FYI, my blog never had a lot of spam, but it was pretty regular. When I started using CFFP, it dropped dramatically. I can't even remember my last spam comment. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Rick Faircloth r

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-15 Thread Raymond Camden
to write my own. Your blog is running CF ? -Original Message- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:raymondcam...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 11:46 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net As an FYI, my blog never had a lot of spam

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-15 Thread Al Musella, DPM
, February 13, 2013 9:23 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net Part of the verification in the processing can be reliant upon something executing in JavaScript and being passed in with the form submission. While I do not disagree with your statements

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-15 Thread Rick Faircloth
: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net You have to be careful not to interfere with normal donations. When I fill out forms using chrome, chrome fills in my name, address and phone number. It might take me only 15 seconds to fill out my donation form.. You can

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-15 Thread Al Musella, DPM
If they read in the form page and then submit it using a script for many days without re-reading the original form, it will appear to the server that they took days to fill. So testing for more than a few hours should be good... sessions might work but they should expire quickly... then if

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-14 Thread UXB
I wonder if the hacker can still submit the form with JavaScript turned off? How would I go about determining just what the hacker's process is? At a base level they can copy your form page to their local server then manipulate the form submitting it to your cfc directly. I have seen people

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks for the feedback, Justin... -Original Message- From: Justin Scott [mailto:leviat...@darktech.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 6:01 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net Forget the form page the bots/humans are not even

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
Thanks, Dennis! -Original Message- From: UXB [mailto:denn...@uxbinternet.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 5:31 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net button for my form is just a regular button that triggers an AJAX function

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-13 Thread UXB
Part of the verification in the processing can be reliant upon something executing in JavaScript and being passed in with the form submission. While I do not disagree with your statements anything that is part of the form data that can be generated by JavaScript can be submitted without it

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-13 Thread Rick Faircloth
: UXB [mailto:denn...@uxbinternet.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:23 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net Part of the verification in the processing can be reliant upon something executing in JavaScript and being passed in with the form

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Looks interesting. IP-based blocking may be a good way to go for my donation form. -Original Message- From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:muse...@virtualtrials.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 12:07 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
Another good thought! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Byron Mann [mailto:byronos...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 1:57 AM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net A fairly inexpensive and easy to implement fraud screening

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Peter Donahue
, DPM muse...@virtualtrials.com To: cf-talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 11:06 PM Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net I came across an interesting way to get the country from the IP address.. http://www.mximize.com/getting-country

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Al Musella, DPM
Your right we do routinely get real donations from a few places like Puerto Rico and Mexico (which both happen to be part of north america)... as well as most of Europe and Japan. We actually got real donations from China and even Nigeria so we can't block any coutry outright. So I

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Justin Scott
We had another run of someone trying yesterday.. I detected it on the 3rd attmept (all of which failed).. then he (or she) tried about 30 more times where I just sent the fake failure notice without letting it hit the credit card processor. I like this approach on two fronts. First it

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
with this approach? -Original Message- From: Justin Scott [mailto:leviat...@darktech.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:36 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net We had another run of someone trying yesterday.. I detected it on the 3rd

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Rick Faircloth
: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net We had another run of someone trying yesterday.. I detected it on the 3rd attmept (all of which failed).. then he (or she) tried about 30 more times where I just sent the fake failure notice without letting it hit the credit card

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Claude Schnéegans
If so, this won't work because I don't use an actual button with a type of submit. The submit button for my form is just a regular button that triggers an AJAX function that sends the data to a CFC for further processing and then submission in the CFC to Authorize.net. From this you can

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread UXB
button for my form is just a regular button that triggers an AJAX function that sends the data to a CFC for further processing and then submission Forget the form page the bots/humans are not even seeing it they are attacking your processing cfc directly. Your protection has to be server

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-12 Thread Justin Scott
Forget the form page the bots/humans are not even seeing it they are attacking your processing cfc directly. Your protection has to be server side since any JavaScript on the form page is ignored. They are submitting form data directly to your CFC processing page. Part of the

Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, guys... I'm been running my first eCommerce setup with a donation page/form using Authorize.net. Things have been running fine, excepts for spammers using the donation form to find legitmate CC numbers so they could abuse the card in other ways. I've assumed, up to this point, that the

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Dave Watts
I realize that if someone is hiring cheap human labor for $1 per day to sit and enter form info, that I can't stop that, but if it is bots doing the spamming, will making CF captcha more difficult to read have a good chance of stopping the bots, or do I need to get with reCaptcha. I like

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net I realize that if someone is hiring cheap human labor for $1 per day to sit and enter form info, that I can't stop that, but if it is bots doing the spamming, will making CF captcha more difficult to read have a good

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Raymond Camden
on Donation form through Authorize.net I realize that if someone is hiring cheap human labor for $1 per day to sit and enter form info, that I can't stop that, but if it is bots doing the spamming, will making CF captcha more difficult to read have a good chance of stopping the bots, or do I

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net I realize that if someone is hiring cheap human labor for $1 per day to sit and enter form info, that I can't stop that, but if it is bots doing the spamming, will making CF captcha more difficult to read have a good chance

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Raymond Camden
: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net I realize that if someone is hiring cheap human labor for $1 per day to sit and enter form info, that I can't stop that, but if it is bots doing the spamming, will making CF captcha more difficult to read have a good chance

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
11, 2013 2:02 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net No, it returns a pass/fail type response.In your example, I'd probably add it after you do client side validation and CF validation, but before the hit to Authorize.net. On Mon, Feb 11, 2013

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Raymond Camden
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Rick Faircloth r...@whitestonemedia.comwrote: After more unsuccessful testing, I'm assuming that the form button at the end of the form needs to be an actual button with a type of submit to work with CFFormProtect? Not as far as I know. I'm a bit rusty on

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Al Musella, DPM
I have just gone through this... A big problem is that the owner complains and the credit card company charges you a penalty and if many get through they can dump you. At first, I banned the IP address when someone tried 3 times unsuccessfuly. That worked for about a day then they would

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
- From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:muse...@virtualtrials.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 4:32 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net I have just gone through this... A big problem is that the owner complains and the credit card company charges

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Les Mizzell
One site of mine for a dance company used to get a ton of spam through contact forms. Everybody hated CAPTCHA, so I put a simple question with radio button choices: A cow goes? a. quack b. woof c. moo d. chirp VERY low tech, but believe it or not, we've not gotten a single piece of bot spam

RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Faircloth
to Outback!) Rick -Original Message- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 4:40 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net Thanks for the info, Al... It is a royal pain trying to deal

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Al Musella, DPM
I came across an interesting way to get the country from the IP address.. http://www.mximize.com/getting-country-by-ip-based-on-geolite I might set this up and block non North American IPs... At 04:43 PM 2/11/2013, Les Mizzell wrote: One site of mine for a dance company used to get a ton of

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Byron Mann
A fairly inexpensive and easy to implement fraud screening service is maxmind minfraud. It's something like 0.005 per transaction methinks. Another method I didn't see in the thread was doing an email confirmation before performing the cc transaction. Like send an email to the user with a

Re: Problem with Hackers on Donation form through Authorize.net

2013-02-11 Thread Paul Hastings
On 2/12/2013 12:06 PM, Al Musella, DPM wrote: I came across an interesting way to get the country from the IP address.. http://www.mximize.com/getting-country-by-ip-based-on-geolite I might set this up and block non North American IPs... i would check w/your client first. not everybody