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I mentioned renaming the login page. Captcha is a great idea, thanks. I didn’t see several posts but they probably list what others said.
GoDaddy really needs to learn how to secure their accounts. Bluehost and dreamhost do as well.
The bots use mostly foreign IPs and China hasn’t been used yet. A lot of private server accounts and a lot of numeric hosts. Hate to block a whole class of IP as often it blocks too much.
Eventually I’ll make a list of open accounts. I’d estimate I’ve seen more than a thousand accounts that are compromised.
My first experience with this was 1994. My host called to say they’d shut off my paysite due to extreme traffic. DOS wasn’t popular then but bots trying to hack were. My host was small so a surge would cause other customers to lag. Solution was to pull me down. I changed hosts fast. They taught me about .htaccess
and how blocking worked. One guy wrote me a script that redirects the bad login to Netscape and wrote to .htaccess. I wish I had that script again.
These bots are trying to hack but the site isn’t built. A trojan could be left on the box and that was a huge deal in the 90’s. Every visitor was allowed to say YES to the pop up and install “free pictures” but it was a trojan that logged keyboard clicks or deleted most of Windows.
Ah, the good old days. Creative minds wasted on viruses. I researched and talked to packet kiddies to learn. I didn’t want to cause issues, just wanted to learn how and why. I’m always curious about how they get access. 2018 and it still goes on.
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