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Reducing Disk Load in High-Traffic PHP Applications: Switching from SQLite to Redis for Anti-Crawler Storage
Automated crawlers and scraping bots are a growing problem for modern websites. While search engine bots are useful, many other crawlers generate excessive traffic, scrape content, or overload servers. To help website owners control this type of traffic, we recently released the Anti-Crawler PHP Library by CleanTalk, an open-source tool designed to detect and limit
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Data Encryption in the CleanTalk API method “spam_check”
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,…
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Temporary email addresses – one of the attributes of spam
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…
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CleanTalk Web Application FireWall for WordPress Security Plugin
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 the…
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“Feedback System” for analyzing suspicious files for WordPress Security
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 there…