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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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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…
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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…
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Anti-Spam Log Update: Forwarding requests to email
We are happy to announce a new function for the anti-spam log. This will make managing your records more convenient and functional. This function allows you to forward requests to email if you marked them as “Not Spam” and you will get a copy of a message on your email. To enable this option, go…
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Critical vulnerability in our Jomla anti-spam plugin
Hello! We should inform you about a critical vulnerability in our anti-spam plugin. It allows anyone to know your admin email. We’ve made the new release for Joomla anti-spam plugin and you have to upgrade your CleanTalk Anti-Spam plugin. Please, follow the instruction here https://cleantalk.org/help/update-joomla3 We are so sorry to cause this issue for you.…