The bot-fighting is a continuous battle. On this week's video, I focus on how we're tweaking Cloudflare Turnstile and mixing extra attributes round how bot-like requests are, and… it nearly labored. Simply as I used to be getting ready to put in writing this intro, I discovered a small spike of anomalous site visitors that, upon additional investigation, ought to have been blocked. So we've pivoted once more, including but extra logic to attempt to give legit people the most effective expertise attainable while making it painful for the bots. Fortuitously, we're doing this with sources which have minimal impression if a restricted variety of bot requests come by, nevertheless it does make for a difficult if not considerably infuriating expertise.
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- We've now recognized the primary spherical of companions to onboard to HIBP (these are corporations that may assist victims "after the breach")
- ColoCrossing had a breach that uncovered 7k buyer e mail addresses for his or her cloud service (seems to be like this simply ColoCloud)
- We love the HIBP merch retailer, however Teespring's assist is completely woeful (we'll transfer to an alternate supplier within the very close to future)
- We're nonetheless tweaking Cloudflare's Turnstile to maintain the dangerous guys out and the great guys in (that's a hyperlink to the HIBP homepage which we expect we now have dialed in fairly good now, see should you get a pleasant async request or a full web page post-back)
