Xortify Series 3.x for XOOPS 2.5 & 2.6 (Antispam, Antiharvesting etc)
Date 2011/12/29 19:41:06 | Topic: Modules
Xortify - Fortify your XOOPS. Community Release by - Chronolabs Co-op.
A cloud computing process is one which staggers multiple networks sometime and mainly unknown to the webmaster into a network or cloud of data. In this example it is IP and Netaddy names to control access lists. Xortify is a cloud solution to spam, harvesting and suspicious and narfarious IPs from using your website or hacking it. It will with pre-aware hierestics ban people which have breeched policies of other websites in both the protector honeypot (lite) and once you have signed up a username the Stop Forum Spam honeypot as well as Project Honeypots hierestical information on spammers, hackers and rouge bots.
I use to get regular signup maybe 4 people a day on chronolabs.coop, however blinded by how obvious it was actually a smart spam bot making usernames so it could spam attack my website; it was able to even step past the captchas and answer my extra signup question of a known email address on the system to sign up, luckly its IP addreses, that is the address systems have on the internet was known on the honeypots and it is now blocked.
It will display a template if you are banned with information such as the banning provider and some settings for the ban and is an accessory to protector or any other firewall technology Xortify is in a league of its own. The site itself is driven from an API Cloud on http://xortify.com and mirrored at http://xortify.chronolabs.coop .. Cloud computing is web 2.0/3.0 stuff it used a SOAP or JSON, XML or Serialisation to exchange on the API backend to work, this will eventually be included in xoops as a support class.
This will prevent predators from exposing your network to lag and other attacks from link farming, often this means many xoops are attacked in occasions which is all the time caught by protector, this way if an attack is in process across a large spectrum of links, your site will down itself to your sourced attack even if it is discovered on a completely unaffiliated site that is link farmed to yours or on a XOOPS User list.
Xortify is a cloud solution to protectors Bad IPs, if someone attempts to hack your site and becomes a bad IP it will then send the IP to the Ban Cloud on Xortify.com and its paired cloud Xortify.chronolabs.coop. It will also poll the server to make sure it has the latest ban list so your website will be aware of malusers before they attack through farming IP from services like Google or bing.
Xortify is finally bug free, there was a lasting reminder of how it can be quiet frustrating developing software, especially cloud solutions with so many variables to hone to make sure the system is working, you should enjoy this version and any future releases for XOOPS 2.7, but as it stands I can't find anymore situations, warnings, notices or WSOD with this copy.
Watch this video to understand more about Xortify!
Whats New in this Feature
XOOPS 2.5 Module Class GUI
Greater Ban Diagnostics
CURL Resolution Timeout
Fault Locking/Delay
Performance Extras - fixed
Some of the other Features
Cron Job State and Timing
Pre PHP 5.2 Compatibility
My IP Information Anti Ban Prevention
Provider Plugins
Admin Usage Log
Protector Module Provider
Project Honeypot Provider
Stop Forum Spam Provider
Spider Module Provide
XML Polling Protocol
Serialisation API Protocol
JSON API Protocol
SOAP API Protocol
Anti Spamming with User Signupl
Anti Harvesting
Serialisation API Protocol
Bugs Fixed
Xortify post loader use of old constant
2.6.0 Implementation in 2.5.0 Version - Lack of Versioning Control
Changelog.txt [size=xx-small]======================================== 2011/12/28 19:52:00 Version 3.00 STABLE ======================================== - Changed /xoops_version.php Swapped Server 1 and Server 2 with preferences (Wishcraft) - Changed /cron/serverup.php Swapped Server 1 and Server 2 (Wishcraft) - Changed /include/function.php removed 2.6 implementation for XOOPS 2.5 line 112 - 116 (Wishcraft) - Changed $GLOBALS['xortify_api'] to $GLOBALS['xortifyModuleConfig']['protocol'] (Wishcraft)[/size]
Trial For Inclusion Xortify will be hopefully moved into the XOOPS platform after a year or so of fine tunning and testing, it is currently discussed to move the cloud (http://www.xortify.com) onto ownership of the domain and this node of the cloud by the XOOPS Foundations. (Chronolabs Will Donate It In the name of AntiSpam). This is the current trial for inclusion and bundling of Xortify with protector in XOOPS 2.6 - This Archive will ONLY work on XOOPS 2.6.
