Hey guys,
Just a heads up for anyone here that has a website / sells gear and probably a good time to review your security.
A real life example of Russian hacking activity I noticed while it was in action on our site recently.
It looks like a pretty basic hack attempt (DDOS or maybe port scan). We'd never have more then ~10 guests on the site at any one time, which is what alerted me to the massive number of guests. All guests had the same IP address, repeated over and over, and surprise surprise, the origin was Russia. They did no damage at all, in fact as the activity was underway i checked responsiveness on the webstore and found absolutely zero detectable difference, so seems to be a pretty futile attempt really...
But, they could try more advanced attacks so make sure you have the proper security in place.
Also, if you can, consider blocking that IP address that attempted hacking my store...My web guy is a bit of a genius with this stuff and he blocked the following ip address range:
Anyway, hope it helps you all and prompts everyone to keep ontop of their security.
Cheers guys
Paul
Just a heads up for anyone here that has a website / sells gear and probably a good time to review your security.
A real life example of Russian hacking activity I noticed while it was in action on our site recently.
It looks like a pretty basic hack attempt (DDOS or maybe port scan). We'd never have more then ~10 guests on the site at any one time, which is what alerted me to the massive number of guests. All guests had the same IP address, repeated over and over, and surprise surprise, the origin was Russia. They did no damage at all, in fact as the activity was underway i checked responsiveness on the webstore and found absolutely zero detectable difference, so seems to be a pretty futile attempt really...
But, they could try more advanced attacks so make sure you have the proper security in place.
Also, if you can, consider blocking that IP address that attempted hacking my store...My web guy is a bit of a genius with this stuff and he blocked the following ip address range:
QuoteI've put in a block for the 65535 ips in the range:
45.155.0.0 - 45.155.255.255
Anyway, hope it helps you all and prompts everyone to keep ontop of their security.
Cheers guys
Paul