May 24, 20060
On the value of mod_security
Over on plastic bag, Tom has a problem. The problem in one word is spam. He actually had two problems (a mass download of his site via a "wget recursively" style script, and the mass spamming of his blog via a "post continuously" script), but both have the same answer: the Apache module named mod_security. I investigated and installed mod_security on my server in the winter of 2004 when a PHP ...