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Cloudflare – website defence – at a price
Following on on the theme of defending against bot scraping, a common solution to this is to use Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a US based company that has, over the last decade or so, become a cornerstone of the modern Internet, dealing in content delivery and DDOS mitigation. In recent years it has expanded its services…
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Bots and crawlers – oh my!
A sad reality of running a website these days is that most sites gain the attention of AI crawlers and other bots. As the world has decided that generative AI, powered by scraping the Internet, stealing other people’s work, is the future, for the moment at least, it has meant that everyone wants to do…
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cPanel security incident 28/04/26
Last week cPanel issued a security alert about a severe vulnerability in servers that run their popular site management software. The vulnerability allowed authentication to be bypassed Patches were released quickly but in the meantime, the advice was to secure access to cPanel either by closing the cPanel service ports 2083, 2087, 2095, and 2096…