Charly's Column The Sysadmin’s Daily Grind: FuzzyOCR
Jul 11, 2008The latest trend is to hide spam in images. The admin’s response: an OCR tool that extracts the texts and feeds them to the spam filter.
more »Tarpits Using tarpits to trap spammers
Jul 11, 2008A tarpit slows down spam by reducing the effectiveness of the spammer’s weapons.
more »Spam Test Comparing antispam appliances and services
Jul 11, 2008Spam filters can help smooth the waves in your inbox, as long as they are reliable and don’t have too many side effects. We’ll show you what we found when we tested five antispam appliances and two service providers.
more »Apache Suexec Secure scripts with Apache Suexec
Jun 20, 2008For many admins, the security of a web application is more important than its performance. If you have a web server with multiple users, the Suexec module can help you avoid problems associated with globally writable directories.
more »FoxFilter and Public Fox Firefox content filters
Feb 25, 2008Firefox has a reputation of being the most innovative Web browser. We show you how to apply Firefox’s distribution-specific tools to make browsing the web safer for your children.
more »HTML Purifier 3.0: For PHP5 Only, More CSS
Jan 15, 2008Version 3.0.0 of HTML Purifier, a PHP library for purifying HTML has just been released with numerous new features.
more »Firefox 2.0.0.8 Removes Vulnerabilities
Oct 22, 2007Several vulnerabilities in Firefox allow remote attacks on 2.x versions: updating to 2.0.0.8 closes the gaps.
more »Web Wizardry Intro Techniques for more powerful websites
Sep 26, 2007New tools for the web appear every day. In this issue, we round up some promising technologies, including Apache's Suexec module, the new WS-Addressing standard, the Helma application server, the Perlbal web server, and microformats.
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