Articles about computer and network security.
If your web site uses both ModSecurity and CloudFlare, and visitors to your web site are blocked intermittently, then the problem could be a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) protection rule in ModSecurity. This article will show you how to fix the problem.
This article will show you how to use CloudFlare’s new, unmetered rate limiting rule in free accounts.
This article shows how to use the CloudFlare’s Server Side Exclude feature to hide data on your web site from bad actors.
This article details how to make Fail2Ban work with the CloudFlare REST API V4, using Authorization Bearer Tokens, to ban and unban IP addresses in your CloudFlare account.
Google documents methods to opt-out a user from Google Analytics and tracking on your web site. However, they do not show you how implement this only for users that have the Do-Not-Track or Global Privacy Control settings enabled in their web browser. This article will provide two examples that perform user opt-out on Google Analytics. The techniques shown here could be applied to other analytics and tracking code as well.