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Submitted by Max Torps on Mon, 28/01/2008 - 22:21.

I've been trawling through the server logs daily while bug fixing the site and been fascinated by some of the logs that show up.

It seems that either a string of infected machines are trying to find vulnerabilities with the server this site is housed on or a deliberate attempt is being made at finding these vulnerabilities.

An example log is here:

Quote:

Type access denied
Date Monday, 28 January, 2008 - 21:15
User Anonymous
Location http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/admin/webadmin/main.php
Referrer
Message admin/webadmin/main.php
Severity warning
Hostname xxx.xxx.xxx.34

This just started a few days ago and I routinely block the ip addresses in question.

The attempts target varying possible database URLs that luckily, are not web facing on this server.  read more »

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