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How to respond to attack on web site
I have wordpress site that is under some kind of bot attack.
I checked apache logs and there's get request to a single post on my blog every second (sometimes there's more than one per second).
When ...
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How much of the world's website traffic is attacks?
Does anyone have any statistics on how much of the total of the world's website traffic is
malicious? Every day I am amazed by the number of requests for .dll and similar things which don't appear ...
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Adsense click bot is click bombing my site
I have a site that get's roughly 7,000 - 10,000 page views per day right now. Starting around 1 AM on 7/1/12 I noticed the CTR was rising dramatically. These clicks would be credited then ...
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How can I stop a bot attack on my site?
I have a site (built with wordpress) that is currently under a bot attack (as best I can tell). A file is being requested over and over, and the referrer is (almost every time) ...
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Bad Bot blocking Revisited
I've read a lot about bad bot blocking, php scripts, .htaccess techniques, etc...
Is this a valid method?
Since .htacces can rewrite and send a bad bot a 403 deny or forward to something like spam ...
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Methods for keeping no-good scrapers off the site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tactics for dealing with misbehaving robots
I want to keep no-good scrapers (aka. bad bots) that steal content and consume bandwidth off my site. At the same time, I do ...
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How do spambots work?
I have a forum that's getting hit a lot by forum spambots, and of course the best way to defeat something is to know thy enemy. I'll worry about defeating those spambots later, but right now I'd like ...
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Preventing botvisits to website
Every time some user shares my website's address inside his/her tweets, the following bots come to my website:
UnwindFetchor/1.0 (+http://www.gnip.com/)
ShowyouBot (http://showyou.com/crawler)
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Number of page requests by any Bot in 5 secs
I am writing a script that will block any bot that requests page(s) for example X times in the past 5 secs. I need to find the X here. Do you guys know some approx values I can use?
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Spam bot constantly hitting our site 800-1,000 times a day. Causing loss in sales
For the past 5 months our site has been receiving hits from these 4 sites below;
sheratonbd.com
newsheraton.com
newsheration.com
newsheratonltd.com
Typically the exact url they come from looks ...
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Huge increase in direct load homepage traffic and bounce rate, causes?
Over the holiday shopping period our website saw a huge increase in direct load traffic directly on the homepage (from 2mil to 8-9mil hits) and the bounce rate went through the roof on that page ...
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Clean an attacked website
Since few monts a client website is attacked by bots. I've changed the website source (now wordpress last version), try to clean but bot find hole in sécurity ...
After bot action i can find ...
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Why are we being twitter spammed?
This is a search relating to us:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/scirra
We're getting a of of new accounts tweeting:
The Layers Bar - Scirra.com
Firstly this is not us doing it as we're ...
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BingPreview user agent
I'm getting several invalid requests from a "BingPreview" user agent. The complete user agent header is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b
The ...
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Moderator with no power to fix spam bot issue [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I prevent spam on sites which I control?
I think this is the correct site to post this.
So I'm a moderator (not administrator) on anddev.org and it's completely ...
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What is the most time-effective way to monitor & manage threats from bots and/or humans?
I'm usually overwhelmed by the amount of tools that hosting companies provide to track & quantify traffic data and statistics. I'm equally overwhelmed by the countless flavors of malicious ...
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DDos Mitigation Services
Any have any experience using these? And what are the pro's and cons? Can you expect a high level of false positives? Are they 100% effective?
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Is Hosting My Web Apps at Amazon EC2/S3 an Adequate Defense Against DDOS?
Reading how an online news portal Sarawak Report was under massive, well-funded, sophisticated DDOS attack and unable to function as normal, I wonder what should normal webmasters do in the light of ...
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How to tell whether spammers are bots or humans?
How can you tell if the people that are spamming your forum or website are in fact bots or human spammers?
Please note that the question is not about preventing spammers. It is to determine if the ...
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How should a site respond to automated login attempts with phony usernames?
For the last couple weeks I've been seeing a consistent stream of 15-30 invalid login attempts per hours on my site. Many of them are non-sensical usernames that nobody would ever register for real, ...
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How are spambots registering on my website?
I have a forum that's getting a bunch of spam bot registrations.
Here's what's happened:
lots of spambots
added static logic question (as a picture), static math question, honeypot field
still lots ...
