HACKERS in attack

[breezeart]

I just would like to know if some of you have been experienced some attacks :mad: to your web site, people tryning to get in in your control page and take control over it. (u can see this in "error logs" )
I have been having many of these attacks, and today one of them have add a virus ..thanks god, the norton blocked at time...but this is so unbelieveble....can we be protected from these hackers, or what kind of security BLUHOST have to get out these attacks??:confused:
any comments??!!!
thanks in advance

[BearState]

I'd already asked if BH provides any form of anti-virus checking for sites and they don't. I don't know if you can bargain with them to install your own and have it run only on your site.

How, please tell, did you get Norton Anti-Virus to show up a virus hacked onto your site? Did you download the file to your machine or was it that when you viewed your site, it attempted to download?

For people who allow anonymous FTPs to their sites, it might be nice, especially, if they allow add-ons of special objects that may incorporate viruses.

Hackers are resourceful and never tiring. It's a game to some of them and you know how many hours some people can waste away playing games.

From what I've seen in the posts to these forums, a lot of the plug-in software packages, both available in CPanel and imported by site owners may not be hacker secure.

You need to read up on security. Put empty index.html files in your sub directories. Establish application user accounts in your databases and don't use root. Use PHP or other techniques to disallow running html directly in form fields. There are a number of other things to do. Too numerous to list here, like don't share your passwords and change them from time to time.

BTW: Don't post intimate details about your site setup in this forum for everyone to see. I'm amazed that some people who seeking help, have done that.

My worst experience with viruses and trojans was on my home machine which was being bombarded by break in attempts, trojans and worms mostly, so much so that I complained to IC3. My anti-virus was showing the break-in attempts every day, often repeatedly from the same IP. I am happy to say that my ISP (Roadrunner) has recently done something that has completely eliminated the attacks. They change my IP address periodically. I only just started noticing it, but the attacks have fallen off to zero.

:)

[breezeart]

hi bearstate, thanks for take your time and give me some info. Well, for beginning, I have noticed that some people trying to get into my web, many times, I reported this to bluehost.
but this time, I found in (errorlogs), a full script with all the actions they did, so I was concerned , so in the moment when I checked my original souce of my website to see if everythings was fine, was when I got the warning about this attacker, norton blocked, and there were 34 attemps for this people...and u know what is the most unbelieve thing, that this attacks came from other hosting company....(according the info got it from logs) is this make sense....
I would be could if u can give more info how to do all these protections and work with PHP,
thanks
have a good one

[BearState]

I'm sorry, but I can't take time to expound on the steps you might take for security.

There are several good books on the topic and I'm sure that other members might suggest one or more. My head's a blank on book titles at the moment.

It is interesting that another web host would hack your site. Are you sure that it isn't just a message that states that the hackers are hosted by that host?

[breezeart]

well, the address comes directy from their host web site/member/info/info

thats just a sample, I could send u the full text if you want to
but when I checked the Ip and evrything it directs to his site
so, that came in my mind,

[nine]

they could be doing it from their own servers, which would be pretty stupid, or they could've comprimised those servers from somewhere else, to make it look like they (the people of those servers) were the attackers. if you think it's worth it, find out the ISP of that server and report it to them - they'll take proper actions. as far as books, go to amazon.com and type in something like "web hacking". you'll get a lot of results.

[BearState]

as far as books, go to amazon.com and type in something like "web hacking". you'll get a lot of results.

JEEZ! I hope you don't mean that there are a lot of books out there that show people how to hack!

:eek:

[nine]

haha, i hope you are being sarcastic BearState. just typing in the word "hacking" in amazon book search returns about 30,000 results. check out what the first 10 are. ;)

[BearState]

haha, i hope you are being sarcastic BearState. just typing in the word "hacking" in amazon book search returns about 30,000 results. check out what the first 10 are. ;)

The last thing I want to be in life is a dry personality. :)

BTW: There is also a wealth of info on how to secure your site on the web and all anyone need do is search for it. There's probably a lot right here in articles in this forum.

[sesstreets]

Those two things are completly unrelated

[BearState]

Those two things are completly unrelated

What two things?

a. Dry Personalities and hackers.

b. Sarcasm and Dry Personalities

c. Hackers and Sarcasm

d. Hackers and Dry Personalities

e. Hacking from books and Web Security

f. Hacking from books and Dry Personalities

g. Web Security and Dry Personalities

h. Hacking from books and Sarcasm

i. Sarcasm and Web Security

j. Hacking and Hackers

k. BH Forums and Hackers

l. BH Forums and Web Security

m. BH Forums and Sarcasm

n. BH Forums and Dry Personalities

o. BH Forums and Hacking

p. BH Forums and Books on Hacking.


Almost ran out of alphabet. Or did you mean Amazon.com?

q. JEEZ and Amazon.com?




:confused:

[nine]

hahaha. that's funny. both of you.

[BearState]

http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/mystyk/pancake%20bunny.jpg

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who doesn't appreciate dry personalities.

:)