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SecurityImages 3.0.0 final released

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Category: com_securityimages

Published on Saturday, 04 March 2006 16:51

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Has been released at Joomla Forge, see details here New: A new About page New: A new developer page for people wanting to use this framework New: a new troubleshooting page

com_securityimages 3.0.0rc2

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Category: com_securityimages

Published on Thursday, 02 March 2006 17:19

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Has been released at Joomla Forge, see details here

It is also rnning on my homepage so it is a pretty stable version ;-) tested against akcomment, akobook, contact

Securityimages 3.0.0rc2

• new: Logged in Users No/Yes Switch off the system for logged in users? 
• new: new plugin HNCapctha which create beautiful captcha  (as seen on my site)
• new: better localization of installation 
• new: A system class detector which detect GD library and help users 
• new: add 3 more fonts 
• bug: reverse logic for displaying reload, sound button 
• new start sound support, not active in this release. 
• new better admin panel with screenshots of possible captcha and securityimage virtual box
• Refactoring:
  - OO improvments: 8 new classes, DAO, move common setting to general tabs
  - move fonts to root of components/com_securityimages so they can be share among plugins

HOW to make your own patches for securityimages

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Category: SecurityImages

Published on Wednesday, 05 August 2009 00:00

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Just in case I take too much time to deliver a ready to use download, duration 5 minutes, but you need to understand basic php coding

1. Create a temporary directory c:\patch
2. Copy an existing patch distribution, under a new name
   For example, lets download Joomla_1.5.13-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.01.00.zip into c:\patch\ and copy it to c:\patch\Joomla_1.5.14-Stable-Full_PackageForSecurityImages5.1.x_v01.01.00.zip
3. Download the latest full zip package of Joomla that target the patch (here 1.5.14), so I download Joomla_1.5.14-Stable-Full_Package.zip and save it in the same directory c:\patch\
   
4. Now download a free trial copy of Beyond compare from www.scootersoftware.com and install this great application
5. Select the 2 zip files, and right click “compare”
   
6. Now it is like a game, on the left side, you have you patch that need to be updated with the latest Joomla! core changes, just edit every file present on the left and update line that are new or changed till you are finished. Luckily there is only 14 files to merge
   
7. Test the result in a Joomla test instance.
   

I do this for you at each release of Joomla!

captcha for com_contact component

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Category: com_securityimages

Published on Sunday, 22 January 2006 00:00

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I have receive 3 email yesterday asking me how to integrate com_securityimages into the contact section

just wondering how you have implemented the CAPtcha for this contact us form, i mean the integration of your wonderful component with the com_contact or the joomla/mambo contact us page...

thanks for the compliments I always appreciate  :-)

Some remarqs:

• com_contact is a core component of Mambo/Joomla
• com_contact has no extension mechanism, no way till today to plug code on the fly -> I must add 8 lines of ly code in a portion of code manually. I am doing this for You, and publish the latest Joomla version at joomlaforge
  
• I have never tried to deinstall com_contact, (You can try if you want), and use the installer to install my modified version, I personnally prefer using FTP and overwrite files at the right place...since I am a developer I feel I have more control

Download: com_contact HERE (choose the right version for You Joomla install) and overwrite file on your server

SecurityImages 5.1.2 available

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Category: SecurityImages

Published on Saturday, 04 July 2009 00:00

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This version should improve installations on some host, where the plugin securityimages.php did not always install properly. The reason behind is that I did add falsely an additional file index.html in plugin.zip. This may lead to permissions issues during installation. SecurityImages 5.1.2 do not contains any other changes, so If you’re happily running SecurityImages 5.1.1, no need to upgrade!

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securityimages 2.2.5

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Category: com_securityimages

Published on Tuesday, 27 December 2005 00:00

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release soon

• Depending on settings in admin panel, the logic was reversed for "Display or not the reload button" and "Display or not the sound button (function not implemented)"
• Remove "image content-type" settings it is not needed -> provide a select boy with gif, jpg, png output possibility instead
• Logs are now database based. with a query engine to search a specific spam attempt.
• Logs can be export to CSV, HTML, XML
• Better localization in admin panel, more keys in english.php
• Add /manuals directory with a manual on how to install securityimages in login, registration
• A file selector (can be reused GPL) for selecting background pictures to be used
• More background
• New language file brazilian_portuguese.php courtesy of Fernando B. (http://developer.joomla.org/sf/global/do/viewUser/ferjoom )

Security Images 2.2 - whats new...

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Category: com_securityimages

Published on Monday, 21 November 2005 00:00

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I will also release a new version of akocomment, and resolve the logged in user bugs that many people have reported me.

release 2.2.0 to be released soon

• All - Security patches: add missing index.html and PHP missing header: defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );
• Plugin core is now able to output image to PNG, JPG or GIF selection in admin core settings
• Plugin core is now able to limit the reload tentative of the users, retry counter is stored in user session. If user reload picture more than Retry in tab Text
  
• Plugin core has a new switch: Use extended charset in image: ex: +*%&/()=?!$?@#...true or false
• Plugin core is now able to output align text in image using 4 strategies:

  System font with random character position
  TTFonts with random character position The best for me, OCR is more difficult
  TTFonts with linear character position (Default setting)
  Random	Above 3 in a random order.

• All - Patches for Login/registration Joomla framework as file in /patches/ You have either:
  • To modify joomla files manually y following steps below OR
  • Copy already patched file (Joomla 1.0.3) to the server at the right place
• All - Bug in function getSecurityImageField($textid) the javascript was not boostraped, no influence but bug was revealed when doing login integration
• All - General Settings: It is now possible to display selectively the reload or sound button.
• com_contact, if user failed to enter the right captcha, he lost his data. This is not a bug but more a functionnalities not existing in Joomla -> the form with history back is always initialize with empty fileds in Mozilla Firefox, while in IE it is working
• Plugin All - Bug if logs are activated, php code logger.php was not included into the delegate plugins/xx/yy/checker.php
• All - New Tab in "General settings" called "Joomla-Patches" this let You swicth on or off the use of security images in login, registration.
• Plugin core - Bug correct the contrast of 2 images bg-L-5.png and bg-L-18.png : there were too dark!
• All - A new menu entry "Check if latest version" has been add, I only have to finish the server code.-> it is not working right now but soon.

 

AkoComment

Administrator mail UTF8 support patch by Karel Neugebauer jr. - http://itx.cz

 

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Submit Content (EZ CZ Submit)

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Category: News

Published on Saturday, 10 December 2005 00:00

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Submit Content is also using my captcha framework for Joomla.... :-)

 Want to expand your sites with a lot of useful articles? Why not let your users or guests share their contents and ideas! This component is based on EZ CZ Submit from MamboZip.com (now is joomlaya.com). The project aim to enhanced, updated, and fixed many bugs in EZ CZ Submit. Some new features in Submit Content component : 

• Full multiligual support.
• Changed the whole source code to enhanced User's Accessibility and Interface.
• Administrator can now config the MAXSIZE of upload images!
• Integrate SecurityImage of WalterCedric --> better anti spamer and hacker.
• Installer Guide is now more clear. Auto chmod created folder. 
• and many more...

SecurityImages 6.0 for Joomla! 1.6

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Category: Joomla 1.6

Published on Friday, 11 March 2011 20:31

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Protect any Joomla! 1.6 forms with CAPTCHA. SecurityImages has been written a long time ago,  born in 2004, first running under Mambo then rapidly Joomla! 1.0, 1.5 till today in Joomla! 1.6

For all those that still don’t know what a CAPTCHA is:

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

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See the demo here, login to administrator backend with login=visitor and password=visitor

Features

• Support all Joomla! 1.6 or 3rd party extensions that use the latest JForm fields
• Update manager is also supported, keep up to date this extension with only one click using Joomla! 1.6 extensions manager
• SecurityImages 6.x is Joomla! 1.6 native, it wont run in Joomla! 1.5 (use SecurityImages 5.x) nor Joomla! 1.0 (use SecurityImages 4.x)
• License as always under GNU/GPL v3.0 or later
• It support the latest CAPTCHA online engine: KeyCaptcha, NUCaptcha, Recaptcha

  

Read more: SecurityImages 6.0 for Joomla! 1.6

Security Images 2.0 to be shipped soon with Login and registration patch for Joomla

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Category: com_securityimages

Published on Tuesday, 15 November 2005 00:00

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Com security image with be shipped soon with a patch for Joomla 1.03 which also modify the login and registration process, see screenshots below....

in module login:

in component registration

in component registration, lost password

The more background, the more fonts, the difficult for a robot to do an OCR on pictures....I was thinking of doing automating search on Google images and randomize the background but Google forbid such kind of misuse of thiers services (I understand that)