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For those of you with blogs, forums, etc: What do you use to manage spam and are you happy with your existing solution? I know Akismet is really popular among Wordpress users. We have our own custom anti-spam bot that we use here and I'm trying to gauge whether it …
Cloudflare's WAF Attack Score of Attack (*not* Likely Attack, but just simply Attack) is giving me false positives, and that was a bit unexpected. I had to create a Rate limiting rule based on he WAF Attack Score so that it only blocks if the number of requests exceeds 5 …
Hi, Is anyone having issues with ProofPoint blacklisting your IP? It appears that many organizations are using ProofPoint to screen emails, and my IP somehow became blacklisted. I filled out their reconsideration form many times, took remedial action (although there was not much to correct) and still weeks later, we're …
Some services I’ve tried keep getting flagged. What’s the safest way to verify accounts without triggering bans?
**A brand-new preprint investigates ChatGPT’s gender bias by presenting the LLM with various moral dilemmas. In this article, you’ll discover what the researchers found and the results of my own replication of the experiment with GPT-4o.**  ## Understanding & Replicating the Latest Study on Gender Bias in GPT ## …
**Discover the world of AI scams and find out how you can shield yourself against the cunning deceptions of deepfakes.**  In an incident that underscores the alarming capabilities of artificial intelligence in the realm of fraud, a company in Hong Kong was [defrauded of $25 million](https://www.businessinsider.com/deepfake-coworkers-video-call-company-loses-millions-employee-ai-2024-2) earlier this year. …
Hi, Im a return member of danweb. My last time here was 2010/11. Good to he back and thanks for having me. Im here with a purpose and it's due to some harrowing experiences ive endured on Quora.com to which I also recently returned. Reason:I had my first real encounter …
Or just phishing. Here's the message I received from another Daniweb member. I redacted their name: > It is my pleasure to contact you discreetly as to discuss a mutually beneficial business, I will want to have your trust and to go into partnership investment with you which must be …
What are the odds. Three minutes before I popped in, we started getting support spam. I whacked 4-5 but I expect they'll keep coming.
[name deted by moderator] has a paypal account and been using my sunrise debit bank card to make transactions that are not approved by me
Hey there forum lurkers - all you people who are browsing the site but still haven't taken a minute to sign up. I just thought it would be a nice idea to welcome you all to the forums. Why not drop us a line and say howdy here? Heck, you …
I just posted something and had to go through the "Click the photos with street signs" test before my post was accepted. I was logged in. I don't remember ever doing this before here. Is this new? Is DW getting attacked with bots all of a sudden?
I got a call from recently from someone claiming to be a Dell tech rep. He said my laptop was reporting multiple errors. Realizing immediately that this was a scam I let him continue while I started a Windows 7 Virtual Machine session. Because I had some free time I …
OK, so there's no problem, just curiosity. Looked at my User Panel and checked on a thread I commented in yesterday and it's gone. The +rep I got in that thread is gone too from my list of commented posts, and I have more up-voted posts in my statistics(63) than …
Why will you not let me unsubscribe from this site and/or delete my account.It should not be so stupid to unsubscribe from this site Do I have to engage a lawer just to get out or something.This is digital kidnapping.UNSUBSCIBE me from Daniweb.Thankyou.
I just got off the phone. It was an interesting call. It was a technician from Microsoft calling to tell me that my computer had been sending a lot of fault data to Microsoft and that he was going to remote in to fix the problem. First he had me …
It's all too easy to think that spam is an old problem, and one that has largely been dealt with. Certainly, many people will tell you that they see very little evidence of spam in their mailboxes. This, however, has less to do with the demise of the spammer and …
I can't really understand how some people are thinking , the are inexperienced ok but what do they think ? . This thread has nothing to do with me , just reading a thread from a person that is here seven years in PHP community and still don't understand what …
So, can you explain to me, why your website/host is running a website scraper abusing the server and resources of another online community that is (unlike your own) providing a free AND ad-free service to its users? Every hour at x:25 your server is requesting a page hosted on our …
On the plus side, there certainly seems to have been a drop in spam activity since the new UI went live. I suspect the spamming hoardes don't like it very much :)
Skype used to have a setting that would allow me to block all unsolicited contact requests. Shortly after Microsoft acquired Skype this feature was removed. I used to get 2-3 requests per week and it was easy enough to delete-and-report-abuse although I suspect nobody ever actually looked at these reports. …
Please what rules guide the down voting action.
The moderators on DaniWeb are starting to become like those on StackExchange: Rude , self-important, and unhelpful. If I want to be abused I will go back over to StackExchange. If DaniWeb expects to grow, the moderators need be reined in, or DaniWeb will just end up second fiddle to …
MY COMP IS TELLING ME I'M DOING ILLEGAL ACTIVITY
Teens just love using social networks for everything from [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story220006.html"]posting naked photos online[/URL] to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story218938.html"]wasting time during class at school[/URL]. We also know that [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story219438.html"]parents have little idea what teens get up to online[/URL] but, it would appear, the teen online love affair has not gone unnoticed by young hackers …
Don't ever recall seeing any news where Amazon customer accounts have been hacked. Can I get an authoritative response that can be checked?
I think some of you have come across these articles: http://blog.nexcess.net/2014/07/25/recent-exploit-using-fake-magento-extensions/ http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/nexcess-uncovers-magento-exploit-allows-hackers-skim-credit-card-data-checkout They talk about a Magento exploit that allows hackers to skim credit card data during checkout. Although the articles were published 2 months ago, it’s surprising that there are still a lot of websites using Magento affected by …
Dear Daniweb, I have enjoyed being a member for several years and receiving the digest on a regular basis. I am disappointed with the recommendation in this edition of the digest for graphicstock.com. The information provided in the digest for the proposed free download was to create a username and …
My email address, business logo and picture have been hijacked. I have been getting emails from my own email address with my business logo attached offering me a job. Most recently I recieved an email from a meetup group with my email address from a group that I am not …
I am bit confused where this question should be placed. But I think It should be here. If we go to the youtube/google/torrent etc... and finding the crack we may find many crack, patch, keygen, crack dll files etc. but how they are created, the owner is not going to …
As often happens, a professor emailed me last month asking that we delete a forum thread because it contains an assignment from his course, with the student asking for assistance, which violates his department's honor code. As always, I responded saying that we have a strict policy where we do …
I figured this might be a useful tool to add but I think that there should be a report user button to report users of abuse... I thought it might be useful...
I had noticed a lot of returned mails with spam content arriving daily. i renewed the old mailing scripts (which was overdue) to include jquery clientside(irrelevant i know) and serverside switched to phpmailer adding a captcha as well as the existing honeytrap that i had before. now although less im …
But I received this message: Registration denied, this forum runs an active policy of not allowing spammers. Please contact us via the “Contact Us” page link if you believe this is in error. I never spammed any one since it's a waste of time. My IP is not black listed …
Today is another of those 'Hallmark' IT security days; in the case of Tuesday the 11th of February 2014 that means 'Safer Internet Day'. I'm not going to start yet another rant about the pointlessness of this, and why every day should be Safer Internet Day. If you want to …
The inboxes get flooded with spam mails and searching for the really useful emails from the junk becomes more and more difficult. Is there some way to stop this other than marking each such mail as spam?
Hey gang - wanted to report that RaT - lead admin of soldierx ( www.soldierx.com ) just burned me for the $40 that he begged me for, by which I mean to say that he lost the money and won't be supplying me the promised soldierx T-shirt. Oh well, at …
Greetings, I have a site that was created back when the dinosaours were around and of course there is a feedback form that wasn't secure and was generating spam via injections. I have implemented my typical measures; CAPTCHA, preg_match, trim, stripslashes, strip_tags, and even preg_replace. Still the spam continues. I …
Just to alert admins that some spamming is just happenning in the PHP forum here on Daniweb. Please take a look.
I've found a website where a large community of people regularly visit to view murders on tape including human beheadings, child torture, animal cruelty, and much more. What sickened me the most was the fact the people visit this site for entertainment. There are a long list of members which …
Actually this is a common problem for all who work with php mail function. Before I start this new thread, search for 2 days a proper/correct solution for my probem. But i couldn't find of any. When I send email through my web site, It is sent as spam to …
I have a simple contact form for a restaurant that's then emailed when submitted. What are some things I can do to ensure the form isn't abused? Such as a user sending multiple emails over and over, or it being hijacked to send spam elsewhere. Here's the php script: <? …
If you were asked to paint a verbal picture of the Internet in just five words, would they be porn, drugs, spam, Twitter and zombies? After analyzing an amazing two billion emails a day for three months, that's the image arrived at by one research outfit. [attach]15822[/attach]The latest [URL="http://www.commtouch.com/download/1753"]Internet Threat …
Global online cash provider [Ukash](http://www.ukash.com), founded in 2001 and with a presence in more than 50 countries across 6 continents, has warned users not to get scammed by a loan company con doing the rounds at the moment. Ukash works on a code basis, with the user buying a voucher …
The latest VIPRE Report from [GFI Labs](http://www.gfi.com) suggests that 2013 started off as a bad year for social network-based cybercrime attacks. The report, which analysed the ten most prevalent threats detected during the month of January, identified phishing messages on both Twitter and Facebook as well as malicious spam messages …
To Daniweb Administrators, I've just found a website which appears to be mining Daniweb data, by this I mean it has an exact replication of articles posted on Daniweb including the same usernames as those relating to members who posted content. The website is [Cyberzhub.com](http://www.cyberzhub.com) I thought I probably should …
[ATTACH=right]16696[/ATTACH]Facebook really dislikes that new 'dislike' button that's been popping up across the social network, and you should, too. That's because it could be a fake - a malicious little app that's actually a survey spam scam of the same ilk as that "[URL="http://www.esecurityplanet.com/headlines/article.php/3885881/Facebook-Phishing-Attack-Promises-Free-iPad.htm"]Free iPad event[/URL]" invitation you've likely received …
How forum admins Mark the users as spammers and is there any strategy ? how to overcome this blocking by doing spamming successfully?
Think of apps and you probably think of your smartphone. After all, Apple pretty much built an iPhone empire around the concept of apps and users of Android and Windows handsets are just as hooked. Truth be told though, and this 'Age of Apps' has spread far beyond the smartphone …
The media, online and off, has been full of scare stories about the 'biggest Internet attack ever' and how a distributed denial of service (DDoS) campaign aimed against anti-spam outfit Spamhaus peaked at an attack volume of 300 Gbps (the highest ever recorded by those who record such things) was …
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