Re: Contact-Form was hacked????

Adrian Nussbaum <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:58:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.bitflux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hi

it seems i almost missed the discussion about the spam...

do i have to update my flux-cms? Or isn't the protection implemented  
yet?


adrian


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Am 04.03.2006 um 20:10 schrieb Matthias Dieke:

>
>>
>> Matthias Dieke wrote:
>>
>>> Froms Philipps last-week-mail:
>>>
>>> We could add the simple hidden by css field trick which catches  
>>> at least
>>> the robots but not the human spammers. Or is that one already  
>>> obsolete?
>>>
>>> How to do this?
>>
>> The form has a field which is hidden by using CSS. In general  
>> spammers
>> use automated scripts to post spam via contact forms. Such a  
>> script is
>> unable to tell wether a field is hidden by ccs or not. As soon as the
>> hidden field is filled in, the spam trap is triggered, because a  
>> human
>> would not even have seen it. Very simple but effective.
>>
>
>
> Thanks. I hope it works ;)
>
> Matthias
>
>
>>> What do you think about a auto-generated picture? I don't know  
>>> the right
>>> name now for this. You can find this on many sites. When you like to
>>> register you have to type in the letters and nummbers from the
>>> auto-generated picture. So we have some protection for the robots.
>>
>> These images are called captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing
>> Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart). In general I don't like  
>> turing
>> test with user interaction because they minimise usability. And we  
>> won't
>> need them as long as the trick described above works.
>>
>> Additionally we could add some blacklist test like they are currently
>> implemented in the blod plugin for comments and trackbacks.
>>
>> HTH
>> Philipp
>>
>>
>>
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