Web Hacking
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Topic: Web Hacking
Posted By: VBHS1999
Subject: Web Hacking
Date Posted: 11 August 2003 at 2:10pm
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Has anyone noticed an increase in hacking activity? I had a peson hack my site news, tried to hack guestbook, and tried to hack the forum. I am also noticing A LOT of directory traversals. Anyone else noticing activities like this? Kevin Carter |
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 11 August 2003 at 2:42pm
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You can never be to lax on security, make sure all applications you are running that have access databases have their database properly secured in a folder outside of your web sites root. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: philcom2000
Date Posted: 11 August 2003 at 3:05pm
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The last few months i have noticed a large increase in attempts to access my private servers. It seems that i am updating and patching weekly just to stay ahead of the hackers. My website has not been under as much pressure but its still a pain that we have too spend so many hours keeping personal & customer files safe with constant monitoring. |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 11 August 2003 at 8:22pm
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when ever i look to the log file of my server, and see the invalid page request.. most of them i find like this. http://www.falahonline.com/forum/wwforum.mdb - http://www.falahonline.com/forum/wwforum.mdb they are trying to download the database, but they are stubid.. they don't know I changed its name to wwgforum.mdb I got an advice just renaming it to wwforum.asp and not wwforum.mdb not and it will function normally and can never be downloaded.
[btw, no one comment on the user(s) I have on the forum.. i didn't advertise for the site yet |
so they always get a 404 error....
]Posted By: faubo
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 12:30pm
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Oh Thanks!!! Now I know you renamed it!!!!
renaming to asp is very good, but you should also encript the databse and use a more strange name than wwgforum.mdb I have one database of news that I oce called "logout.asp"... who would want to try to download a logout page? ------------- http://www.conhecerparaconservar.org - I don't know how to make you click here |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 12 August 2003 at 3:18pm
OH NO, so you are the one who is hacking my server... |
faubo wrote: