Author: Keith Williams Date: To: BitFolk Users Subject: Re: [bitfolk] I know I should not take it personally but ...
Thanks Sindre
On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 20:39, Sindre Smistad <sindre@???> wrote:
> Are they just hitting the same URL over and over again, or are they
> actively crawling your pages and trying different things in URL parameters
> and forms?
>
> You could temporarily setup Cloudflare for your websites on the server. If
> you just want it to filter out the unwanted traffic the free tier is
> probably enough, but if you think your server is actually under attack I'd
> recommend the pro trier. After setup you can toggle that you are under
> attack, and filtering will be more aggressive.
>
> https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/ >
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:45 PM Keith <keith@???> wrote:
>
>> Your theory about it just being a try out practice run sort of thing
>> does, unfortunately, sound feasible. The hit rate is not large enough on
>> its own to be dangerous - 6 a second - but it has gone on for so long
>> with no success at all on their part. hey throw in the odd ping every
>> now and then as well.
>> Still awaiting a response from their abuse address
>>
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> On 2019-04-09 17:18, Max B via users wrote:
>> > Probably a compromised Stanford system, that makes one suspect those
>> > coltish "Stanford students" instead of the real culprit who is more
>> > likely either A/ to frustrate your service, such as tor or wikileaks
>> > etc, B/ to be a script kiddie, C/ to be an APT.
>> >
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