tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77910359698309925582024-02-20T11:17:52.768-05:00From the BotsosphereRaves and rants about robots, spiders, crawlers, sploggers, scrapers and other machine agentsMike Adewolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17790529605888700637noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791035969830992558.post-32352930744704193762008-11-26T22:47:00.059-05:002008-12-04T09:21:08.050-05:00Preventing SQL Injection Attacks The Right WaySQL injection attacks are everywhere these days. They have become ubiquitous beyond measure and have been exploited by hackers of all grades across different applications, database engines and operating systems. Try to find a solution to the problem on the web and you will be blessed with many solutions and recommendations like this and this and this. All these solutions have one thing in common Mike Adewolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17790529605888700637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791035969830992558.post-80486273839944569572008-09-06T10:49:00.005-05:002008-09-06T11:04:49.478-05:00How NOT To Verify GooglebotMaintaining a blog takes a lot more effort than one would imagine. Besides family, lifestyle and work, it's hard to understand how people manage to find the time to keep their blogs up to date. I suppose the trick is to find a way to bring blogging under work or lifestyle so that blogging becomes something you do without much ado. Definitely something I need to work on.Type "verify googlebot" Mike Adewolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17790529605888700637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791035969830992558.post-25144905408803539132007-08-10T07:55:00.000-05:002007-08-10T08:29:14.733-05:00Reverse Proxies Are A Menace To Web Sessions — And To Bot TrapsA bottrap is a server-side script that tries to detect when too many requests are being sent to a web server by a client computer (and it may be designed to take some action to help reduce the load on the server). The web server can however not only receive requests from several computers A, B, C as if they are coming from a single forward proxy computer X, but it can also receive requests from aMike Adewolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17790529605888700637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791035969830992558.post-24731231610618337832007-05-11T23:51:00.000-05:002007-05-12T00:29:08.184-05:00Automatic Verification Of Machine Agents, Or How To Tell When Search Engine Names Are SpoofedI didn't plan to post anything until next month, but I'm beginning to feel that were I to limit myself to one post per month as I originally intended, it will take forever to exhaust the topics that I want to write about. So for now I'm going to adopt an adhoc schedule by posting whenever I have the time to write - and boy, do I have a lot to write about.I mentioned in my last post that a lot of Mike Adewolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17790529605888700637noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791035969830992558.post-70050931874120391522007-05-02T06:24:00.000-05:002007-05-02T08:02:57.513-05:00Botslist.com Goes BetaAfter several months of development and testing, Botslist.com has been opened for testing by the general public. The development took much longer than anticipated but I believe the effort has been worthwhile because the site is hands-down one of the most comprehensve and sophisticated bot tracking services on the internet. That in itself would be saying nothing, of course, if it wasn't for the Mike Adewolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17790529605888700637noreply@blogger.com0