Posts Tagged 'securityimages3'

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

SecurityImages 3.0.5 release

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Category: SecurityImages

Published on Sunday, 28 May 2006 13:02

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One way to crack CAPTCHA  is to offer a free porn site which requires that the user  key in the solution to a captcha -- which has been inlined from my site for example -- before he can gain access. Free porn images or video attract a lot of users around the clock and in many countries. SecurityImages 3.0.5 try to solve this issue by adding a text in the generated picture. NEW: Hncaptcha 1.0 has been modified NEW: Core 1.1 has been modified Download it at Joomlaforge or in my download section

Sporadic bugs appearing in SecurityImages 3.0.4?

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Category: SecurityImages

Published on Saturday, 27 May 2006 11:58

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I've getting now many emails and bugs reports about security images 3.0.4. After looking closely at the source code and trying to reproduce those problems, I finally found the bug. In fact this component is now a victim of its success, using it everywhere has also revealed a serious design flaw, but let me explain.... Security Images is using 2 hidden fields in the background: Security_try which contains the text entered by the user Security_refid, which contains a UUID which will be use or not (depending on the Plugin) to locate the private key in the database or session. And these hidden fields names are spread in the code... this let the horror scenario happen: If you have many securityimages (captcha images) generated in the same page: login module may have one, Guestbook may have one for example, the code wont work! The browser will submit all Hidden fields which are in the form, and thus the first input text box (Security_try) may overwrite what the user has entered in another one...rejecting always the user as a result.

Solutions

1. Prio 1: framework has to be configurable from the outside,
2. Prio 1:  Free porn attack counter measures will be add to HNCapctha Plugin

Release

3.0.5 (Patch)

• Free porn attack counter measures will be add to HNCapctha Plugin.

4.0.0 will have non compatible API changes
You will have to change some 3rd party components, but I will support following 3rd party components:

• com_contact (Joomla core)
• com_login (Joomla core)
• com_registration (Joomla core)
• akobookPlus
• akoCommenPlus

Other like Community Builder, Galleries, JoomlaBoard will have to be supported by their own authors. Please contact them about that issue, I will document how to use the 4.0 in my wiki.

Other new functionnalities will be add to the 4.0 releases soon. (You can submit your ideas here)

Since it is raining over there :-( , it is realistic to see the version 4.0.0 before monday 29.05.2006

AkobookPlus new languages files:

• Spanish translation, thanks to Mariela Gonzalez http://www.poolp.com/mariela
• Slovenian translation, thanks to Boštjan Rudolf http://www.whippetkevin.net

SecurityImages 3.0.4

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Category: SecurityImages

Published on Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:46

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 Maintenance releases

• BUG: captha combo box is now Joomla, Mambo CSS aware class="inputbox"
• BUG: affecting array of font was not working and lead to a corrupt array in plugin core 1.1
• BUG: HNCAPTCHA O, o I and i and 1 impossible to read...
  This is not due to the random Text Generator but more to one font rubberst.ttf, get rid of it in
  the "hncaptcha core admin panel". Remember the more fonts the more difficult to hack it with OCR robots.
• NEW add czech translation