Tokens as hacker tools — and how you can reduce the risk

When you think like a hacker, as I learned to in a long-ago role as security admin, martech can seem almost quaintly vulnerable. Sometimes, DoS/DDoS and data theft openings

What you were looking at…

Here's what was going on in that quiz last week [quiz-what-are-you-looking-at]. As a reminder, I was wondering if you could figure out this seemingly bizarre combo of languages/

Access the URL query string in Visits Web Page triggers

As you may know, there's no {{trigger.query string}} token, which can be frustrating since Marketo usually (though not always) considers a “web page” to include only the

Dark Marketo Alleys: Counting non-Marketo email opens using a “pixel LP”

This trick definitely falls into the Only if you insist… category, but it'll show you a bit about how Marketo LPs work. N.B. This post isn'

Quiz: What are you looking at?

I've done (or at least scoped) some crazy integration projects lately. But this is a new level. Can any of y'all figure out what's

“Poison pills” for bad Smart Lists using Velocity

Custom flags like Is Embargoed and Is Customer add flexibility and a nice self-documenting quality to your database. The problem is remembering to add these fields to Smart List filters.

DKIM brain teaser: the answer

Gave y'all an extra day, but still only two guesses at the puzzle! I'm going to round up to “too challenging” instead of down to “nobody cares.”

Numeric and “numeroalphabetic” strings in Marketo, SQL, PHP and elsewhere

Marketo user SS asked a good question [https://nation.marketo.com/thread/36666] about datatypes in webhook responses. Referring to the documentation provided by a 3rd-party lead enrichment service, she