Questions tagged [botattack]

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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 .htaccess files on the website with this…
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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 such an event. Do you think that if I host my web…
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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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Does anybody knows this Bot with UA 'Java/1.7.0_67'?

Does anyone knows this unfriendly Bot coming constantly from this IP-Adress 87.210.90.16 (Amsterdam), UserAgent is 'Java/1.7.0_67' ? It scraped our whole site without any interruption and without to pause a bit between the requests
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