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IP Adress of Poster
By Kromonos in the group General DiscussionWhere can I see, as administrator, the IP address of the poster?It's because of a security reason.Tags: security, ip, posterPosters IP address
By Kromonos in the group Elgg Technical SupportWhere can I find posters IP address?Tags: securitySite Access
Tags: private, access, invite, invitation, walledgarden, captcha, registration, register, login, activation, activate, security, user, account, validation, validate
Is there necessary to clean form input in elgg?
By Snow.Hellsing in the group Plugin DevelopmentI'm new to elgg and double if there is necessary to clean every text input by htmlentities() and mysql_real_escape_string().And,in get_input(),elgg read var from $_REQUEST rather than $_POST,is it safe?Tags: input, security
Security?
By Rob in the group Elgg Technical SupportHi People, Having used Joomla in the past and no doubt like many of you, I would like to know what security specific information newbies like me should be aware of? How often are we looking to update / upgrade our versions, do you do small security fix updates between major 1.2, 1.3, 1.5 for e....Tags: security
Securing ELGG
By slowsoulz in the group General DiscussionWhat is the best way to secure ELGG from hackers? Is there any other software I need? Any server side things I should be concerned about? Any help, ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!Tags: security, elggPassing this info on to other ELGGers
By slowsoulz in the group General DiscussionI don't know if this is important or not. Or if someone was trying to hack into my site or not. But I decided to pass this own to ELGGers anyways. I went through to look at the users of my website, Freakybehavior.com, I saw a guy with this email address: anillaorgargy@xsecurity.org. When I check...Tags: security, elgg, users
Denial of Service Mitigation
By Alex Tanchoco in the group Feedback and PlanningGiven the recent (perhaps still ongoing) attack on Twitter and other popular sites, security is of concern. Although there are tools that can be installed on servers to help ward this off, additional hardening measures should be designed and implemented within Elgg. Some of these tool...Tags: security, ddos
Security for large elgg sites
By OregonMike in the group Elgg Technical SupportI'm developing a large site anticipating upwards of 20,000 users. I'm concerned with security. I'd be interested in discussing how existing large sites handle the issues.Tags: elgg, securityOAuth
This plugin makes available a fully functional OAuth consumer library and service provider library for Elgg. OAuth is a distributed API authentication protocol that allows users to delegate API access to their data without divulging their credentials to the API-consuming party. This plugin suppor...Tags: oauth, api, security