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Spoofed Bingbot attacks against WP
Feb 2nd
# Updates # 06/18/12 – Bingbot attack returns, but attacks the wp-admin folder instead of just the login page. Updated to patch that. Also added 403 Error handling # 02/04/12 – Revised wording to reinforce Bing’s perspective # 02/02/12 – Modified block code to identify bingbot as ‘badbingbot’ in case ‘bingbot’ is already being used somewhere
In the last 24 hours, I have seen a large scale attack on the admin logins for thousands of WordPress sites. The attackers are using the User Agent ‘Bingbot’. Bingbot certainly is NOT the culprit in these attacks, but is, unfortunately, being spoofed. These spoofing bots More >
How to investigate an FTP hack
Feb 26th
If you have a website, there is a good change that one day you will get hacked. It happens. With so many possible ways to intercept connections & gain entry, you cannot safe guard them all, not permanently anyway. A determined intruder can get in. I myself have even had one of my cPanel accounts compromised. There are a number of methods for severely lowering the chances of an intrusion, but I will be saving that for it’s own article as it will be rather involved. For this article, I am going to show you how you can investigate a More >
