Victor's Blog about the Web, Security and Life

The web for me is a hobby where standards and best practices are daily bread. Security is a concern that everybody must be aware of its details for IT in general, and the web in particular, to be a safer place. My life, on the other hand, is that of a regular Lebanese citizen where politics and social issues are discussed on a daily basis. I hope you enjoy reading my blog and make sure to drop me a comment about any topic you find interesting.

LiveMediaPlus

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victor | 31 January, 2006 16:20

An interesting solution that we've launched recently is: LiveMediaPlus.
LiveMediaPlus is intended to be a complete online marketing solution for businesses and individuals interested in online marketing.

What is so special about LiveMediaPlus and why would NetDesignPlus invest on such a solution?
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How Does the Visual Code work?

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victor | 23 January, 2006 11:39

Another interesting question that I received was about how the Visual Code protection works? I will try to explain it here in brief for the curious researcher.
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Is Spamming a Security Breach?

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victor | 23 January, 2006 11:22

I received some interest emails from readers regarding the relation between Spamming and Security breaches. In summary, some of these emails thought about spamming comments as a security breach related to Denial of Service attacks where the space is "filled" up by bogus messages.

I tried answering some of them but it turned out that a lot of typing and explanation is required so I figured out that the best thing to do would be to post the anwer in here as an article.

The question to answer is the following:
How To Avoid Blog Spamming?

Read more for the answer.
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Visual Code Protection

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victor | 21 January, 2006 18:05

As you may have noticed, my blog was subject to various attacks from spammers who where using comments to place their ads to other websites with the hope of having some better SEO results.

As a result, I had to add a visual code confirmation while posting comments to avoid forcing users to register for placing their comments. I am really sorry for this inconvenience but this is a must if I am to move on with my blog.

Also, please excuse the long time it took to get the code in there (a 1-hour work) but my late days were very busy so I barely had time to login here and add this fix.

Now we're back to normal discussion and I will be updating the blog soon with some interesting data about my latest findings in Linux hosting.

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