My site was recently attacked. What do I do?

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Published on 2010-05-08T16:12:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 16:18 UTC
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This is a first for me. One of the sites I run was recently attacked. Not at all an intelligent attack - pure brute force - hit every page and every non-page with every extension possible. Posted with garbage data to every form and tried to post to some random urls too. All tod, 16000 requests in one hour.

What should I do to prevent/alert this kind of behavior? Is there a way to limit the request/hr for a given ip/client?

Is there a place I should be reporting the user to? They appear to be from China and did leave what seems like a valid e-mail.

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My site was recently attacked. What do I do?

Posted by ChrisH on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by ChrisH
Published on 2010-05-08T16:12:47Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 16:29 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 261

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This is a first for me. One of the sites I run was recently attacked. Not at all an intelligent attack - pure brute force - hit every page and every non-page with every extension possible. Posted with garbage data to every form and tried to post to some random urls too. All tod, 16000 requests in one hour.

What should I do to prevent/alert this kind of behavior? Is there a way to limit the request/hr for a given ip/client?

Is there a place I should be reporting the user to? They appear to be from China and did leave what seems like a valid e-mail.

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