This is the blog of web developer and designer Andy Walpole.
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Spotting that a web site has been hacked: Using BrightCherry.co.uk as an example
Mon 8th Jun 2009
It's not necessarily easy to spot if a website has been hacked (or cracked to use the correct terminology).
A lot of website attacks amount to a malicious user breaking into a site through a security flaw and then defacing it. I've even hea...
The ethics of banning entire countries to stop spam
Wed 22nd Apr 2009
At the end of last year I had a spam problem on a particular website. If I haven't hand-coded a site myself and I'm using a Content Management System then I always use the Mollom or Akismet applications as they are very effective at automatically filtering out the most obvious spam - I also use Bad Behaviour ...