Cloud spam protection for forums, boards, blogs and sites

We are happy to inform you that we have supplemented our API method and now the “spam_check” method takes information in an encrypted form. How It Works Every piece of data for each IP or email is encrypted with the SHA256 algorithm and now if the method sends a SHA256 hash to the CleanTalk Cloud

Use of temporary email addresses for registration/comments and messages is one of the attributes of spam. What’s wrong with using temporary email addresses? You will never be able to contact this customer and your marketing will not work. If this user forgets login/pass he will never be able to restore them. CleanTalk Anti-Spam has added

Hello, We are happy to announce CleanTalk Web Application FireWall for WordPress Security Plugin. The main purpose of WAF is to protect the Web application from unauthorized access, even if there are critical vulnerabilities. It allows you to protect Web applications from known and unknown attacks. Its use is transparent to all visitors to t

Hello, We are happy to introduce our “Feedback System” for analyzing suspicious files. This is the client-server feature in CleanTalk Security Plugin that allows sending suspicious files from WordPress backend to CleanTalk cloud. So, CleanTalk WordPress Security Plugin includes a Malware Scanner and there may be situations after scanning when you don’t know, is ther

Sometimes, you want to know what is happening on your website, maybe you want to be informed when any messages are sent and were it blocked or allowed by CleanTalk Anti-Spam. We added a new feature to help you control for messages from your customers. It allows you to add a notification with some parameters

Spam spreads not only in English. Many spam messages are written in Chinese, Arabic, Japanese or Korean languages. If your website isn’t aimed at an international audience, and you don’t expect comments/users from other languages. For example, your website is about fishing in Ireland and you don’t want to have comments from the Chinese languag

How spammers circulate website spam? They use infected with viruses computers, hacked websites or they buy servers to spread spam. In ordinary situations, websites do not send any comments (POST requests) to other websites and if that happens it is a certain sign of a hacked website. Each hosting provider has its own IP rang

As you know DDoS attacks on the site are of different intensity, it is important to the number of hosts involved in the attack, the number of network packets and the amount of data transmitted. In the most severe cases, it is possible to repel the attack only using specialized equipment and services. If t

E-mail is still one of the most important and effective elements of online business and marketing and is the most effective channel for generating revenue. Therefore, for any online business and website owners, it is important to be sure that the email owner used it for registration/subscription so that the user used his real ema

Recently we wrote that we made IPv6 support in the anti-spam plugin. But not only spammers began to use IPv6, for other types of attacks on sites, attackers also use them. We implemented support for IPv6 in the security plugin for WordPress  Updated methods of IP addresses determination, storage and transfer of information to t