I Survived Being Hacked!
- Category: Security & Privacy
- Posted On: 7/13/2006
- Views: 3,452
My website was attacked between the hours of 11 and 12 PM this morning here in Phoenix, AZ by the IP address 85.255.117.222. They quite obviously came across a couple of my pages where I had not properly handled the omission of a query string parameter (the thing in a url that looks like "webpage.aspx?parameter=somevalue"). When you removed the parameter from the query string on the 2 pages ("webpage.aspx"), it puked a nasty .NET error. The "hacker" (not really deserving of the name in this case) attempted to work their way deeper into the error, creating more than 3,500 web page hits on my website in 1 hour. So, I blocked the range of IPs from this host. The website inhoster.com owns these IPs and is directly associated with spyware activity.
- Category: Security & Privacy
- Posted On: 7/13/2006
- Views: 3,452