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    • CleanTalk Anti-Spam Launches IPv6 Support for WordPress

      Hello!

      The latest version of WordPress CleanTalk Anti-Spam (5.77) just added support for IPv6 to protect for spam.

      This version that includes a number of improvements with the main one being the introduction of IPv6 support.

      Since IPv6 is becoming more and more popular there have been more requests for CleanTalk to include support for it, and it is now available, ensuring that your site is protected against IPv6-specific attacks.

      Also, we will add IPv6 support for every CleanTalk feature quite soon.

      Download the latest CleanTalk Anti-Spam for WordPress here.

      Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or comments.

    • CleanTalk Released an Extension for the Protection of OpenCart Against Spam and Spam Bots

      CleanTalk Released an Extension for the Protection of OpenCart Against Spam and Spam Bots

      CleanTalk completed the development extension for the OpenCart, to protect your online store against spam and spambots.

      The anti-spam extension is compatible with OpenCart versions v3.x. and approved on the OpenCart official marketplace.

      This extension allows users to quickly and easily connect to CleanTalk anti-spam service. Its service provides 100% protection from spam bots and provides a simple and convenient commentary/sign-up form for visitors.

      This extension allows protection from automatically distributed spam, as well as from spam bots registrations. The protection method offered by CleanTalk allows users to switch from the methods that trouble the communication (CAPTCHA, question-answer etc.) to a more convenient one.

      CleanTalk saves time and resources spent on moderation and verification of questionable users or comments. Unnoticeable Protection from spam and registration forms, which does not require the visitor to prove who they are, increases the conversion in registration and is not annoying.

      CleanTalk is a cloud service, security module, installed on a website, which sends the behavior parameters of the visitor or spambot. These parameters are estimated, and the service makes a decision – to post a message or to define it as spam and reject.

      On the basis of such checks, the service forms its own list of email addresses used by spambots. Likewise, the registration of visitors is checked. The service adds not only email addresses to the blacklist but also IP addresses and domains of the websites that are promoted through spam mailout. The CleanTalk company developed unique algorithms to assess the behavior of the visitor, and with 100% accuracy, we keep spam messages at bay. All of this happens automatically and requires no action from the administration of the website.

      You can now download CleanTalk Anti-Spam for OpenCart from the official catalog.

      The Company provides automatic spam protection services for popular CMS: WordPress, Joomla, phpBB, Drupal, DataLife Engine, IP Board, vBulletin, MediaWiki, SimpleMachinesForum and API for PHP, Perl, Python, NET.

    • CleanTalk becomes more convenient for mobile users

      Recently we have applied changes to our spam filters. They are about separation of users by their devices: desktops or mobile gadgets.

      Visitors more often surf through websites with smartphones and tablets, so it is necessary to separate them, besides spambots became to use mobile device parameters often as well.

      The changes made it better to detect mobile devices since their parameters of conduct and parameters of messages differ from desktop browsers. Moreover, human/spambot detection for sent messages from mobile devices was improved too.

    • CleanTalk Traffic Control — analyze web traffic in real-time

      CleanTalk Traffic Control — analyze web traffic in real-time

      We are happy to inform you about launching our new feature for the WordPress CleanTalk Security plugin.

      One of the most important component of Traffic Analysis is ability to monitor traffic in real time.

      Tracking of your website activity in real time. You can see how many visitors of your website or blog are online and what pages they are on, plus how much time they spent being there.

      Many tools only track traffic of visitors who enabled JavaScript in their browsers, thus they are not capable to show you the whole picture. CleanTalk Traffic Control will track every single visitor no matter if they are using JavaScript or not and provides many valuable traffic parameters such as:

       • Date and time of the visit to your website;
       • Spent time on your website;
       • IP-addresses;
       • Source country;
       • Browser;
       • Operational System;
       • Type of the visitor — Visitor, Search Bot, different bot, suspicious bot and so on;
       • A number of visited pages.

      Abilities:

       • Block specific IP-address, network or country directly from the interface.
       • Block IP-address automatically if the threshold of average quantity of visited pages was exceeded.

      This is great monitoring tool to see attacks in real time and to block them if necessary.

    • Checking Existing Comments and Users for Spam in Joomla CMS

      Checking Existing Comments and Users for Spam in Joomla CMS

      CleanTalk adds new features in CleanTalk Anti-Spam for Joomla. The work of the plugin is absolutely invisible for visitors and allows users to renounce forever the ways of protection complicating communication on the website (CAPTCHAs, questions, and answers, etc.). CleanTalk allows you to automate protection from spam and the registering of spam bots.

      We released a new version of the anti-spam plugin for Joomla, the new version has a function of automatic check for spam of the existing comments on the site.

      This allows administrators of the Web sites to automatically check and identify spam bots comments and registrations, which were not detected by conventional anti-spam tools.

      To start a scan, go to plugin settings: Extensions -> Plugin Manager -> Anti-spam by CleanTalk then click the button “Check spam users” or “Check Spam comments”.

      “The team CleanTalk has been developing a cloud spam protection system for five years and has created a truly reliable anti-spam service designed for you to guarantee your safety”.

    • AI will play an increasing role in online security

      AI will play an increasing role in online security

      Neural Networks were introduced as far back as the 40’s of the 20th century and first works about them started in the 50’s. Nowadays this technology is being used in different fields. We believe that the CleanTalk machine teaching technologies of spam detection could be upgraded with the help of Artificial Intelligence and the CleanTalk features could be expanded to define an emotional aspect of a comment.

      Theoretical researches of spam filtering with Neural Networks say that these algorithms could achieve 100% efficiency.

      The CleanTalk Company has started to develop Neural Networks Algorithms for spam presence analysis of comments and messages which could provoke negative effects, rudeness, abuse or fraud in discussions.

      There is a big data safety problem in online security. There are too much data to process anomalies that could be the signs of spambots presence.

      There are about 1.5 millions of requests the CleanTalk Cloud processes every day and each request contains set of about 40 parameters. The Cloud uses them to decide whether a request should be approved or blocked so AI could improve our possibilities in spambot patterns detection.

      We intend to supplement technology of spam protection and moderation with more reliable feature and take into account such things as slang, typos, context and other traits of a visitor behavior.

      About CleanTalk

      CleanTalk is a SaaS spam protection service for Web sites. CleanTalk uses protection methods which are invisible for site visitors. Connecting to the service eliminates needs for CAPTCHA, questions and answers and other methods of protection, complicating the exchange of information on the site. Their solutions are reliable, easy and efficient. The module is completely invisible to the visitors and allows you to permanently abandon the ways of protection that impede the communication of visitors to the site (CAPTCHA, question-answer, etc.). CleanTalk allows you to automate protection against distributed from spam and registration spam bots.

      The CleanTalk team has been developing a cloud spam protection system for 5 years and has created a truly reliable anti-spam service designed for you to ensure your safety.

    • Keeping Your Business Safe From Hackers in 2017 [INFOGRAPHIC]

      Resolute cyber hackers have many tools at their disposal to cause havoc in your systems while remaining undetected for a long period of time. More than a few high-profile companies have learned this the hard way. 2017 has been the year of high-profile cyber-attacks, with a growing list of victims that include the NSA hack, CIA’s Vault 7 data leak, Macron email hack, the Petya ransomware attack – the list goes on.

      It is fair to say that cyber-attacks are on the rise. Yet, it is interesting to find that many businesses openly admit that they lack sufficient defenses against such attacks, despite the damaging financial and reputational repercussions.

      Whether it is a denial of service attack, ransomware or email leak, investment in customer data protection and advanced early-detection systems is key for businesses.

      You may like to visit software directory to compare IT & security software after you have a look at the rundown we have compiled in the infographic below, outlining what you need to know about the looming cyber security threat businesses face.

      This infographic is based on ‘How to raise your organization’s security maturity level‘ by Bloor Senior Software Analyst, Fran Howarth. (Some data has been updated and new data has been included in the infographic.)

      Nabeel Khalid | Marketing Manager at CrozdeskBased in London with over 6 years of experience in Digital Media and Marketing, Nabeel is a regular contributor to the Crozdesk Blog.

    • It’s time to move websites to HTTPS

      It’s time to move websites to HTTPS

      CleanTalk has become a Comodo SSL Partner and we started to provide SSL Certificates.

      It is the best way to have your web services in one place to manage they.

      There are a number of reasons for the accelerated adoption of HTTPS

      -Improving SEO
      -SSL Provides Trust
      -SSL Provides Authentication
      -Protects your and your visitor’s information
      -Chrome browser will show your Domain URL as “Secure”

      So, if your website does not yet support the SSL technology it’s time to make the move.

      One of the most important factors in creating a successful online business is your clients’ trust. And one way to achieve it is providing your website safety using SSL certificate, which guarantees that all your clients’ data, logins, passwords and personal information will be transferred securely between your web server and browsers of the users.

      Also, Google announced that having SSL certificate is the most simple thing to do for webmasters to improve their SEO. It also said that they “can make a decision to amplify” signal as they want to «encourage all webmasters to switch HTTP to HTTPS increasing Internet security for everyone».

      Learn More about CleanTalk SSL

    • CleanTalk Security for WordPress: More informative log

      We added new parameters in the Security FireWall Log.

      CleanTalk WordPress Security Log shows a list of all the network requests blocked in the course of loading the page. Each request is displayed in its own row.

      All of these requests will have next string:

      -Page URL to which the request was sent.

      Security FireWall blocks all requests from the most active IP addresses where massive spam and brute force attacks come from.
      Security FireWall may significantly reduce the risk of hacking and reduces the load on your web server. All security logs are stored in the cloud for 45 days.

      Your security log is here https://cleantalk.org/my/logs?cp_mode=security

      Notice: Page URL is available starting with plugin version 1.17
      Download the latest version here:
      https://wordpress.org/plugins/security-malware-firewall/

      Don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any questions or comments.

    • New Feature for CleanTalk Security Service

      New Feature for CleanTalk Security Service

      Hello!

      CleanTalk continues to develop Security Service and launches new option “BlackIPs Database”.

      Our Cloud Service processes millions of requests every day and we know which IPs have suspicious activity in real time.

      BlackIPs Database — is the database of the most active IP addresses where massive spam and brute force attacks come from. When IP starts attacking a few websites they are immediately added to the blacklist. IPs that stop attacking are being removed over time and that time is relatively short — usually about 2 weeks.

      This option will be a powerful way to improve the Security Service for your websites.

      Blocking a bad IP completely is more effective and safer than just blocking its malicious requests because you don’t allow it to gather information about the target website it is about to attack.

      BlackIPs Database is included in the standard package of Security Service and does not require any additional payment, just enable this option in your CleanTalk Dashboard -> Settings then mark the option “Use CleanTalk database of dangerous IP addresses”.

      If you need to add exceptions for IP addresses or subnets, you can add them to white lists that have higher priority and will not be blocked.

      In 2 weeks we will add new parameters to Security Service Log that will show blocked requests and Page URL which the IP address was trying to get access to.

      CleanTalk Real-Time BlackIPs Database is one of the greatest security features.

      We work every day to continuously improve and evolve our services.

      Let us know if you have any suggestions or comments.

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