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To: JACKRUSSELL

Up until about a year ago it was the Russians who were the main problem. As a webadmin I can testify that the Chinese hackers are now the biggest threat, at least on the commercial sites that I manage.

The attack attempts have been flooding my logs with 10000+ attempts/day.

We recently banned all Chinese IP addrs at the firewall. We get less than 0.1% sales from China and most of those are stolen credit cards anyway. (We banned Russia years ago for the same reason.)


20 posted on 01/18/2008 6:56:30 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

Where would I find a list of the IP ranges used by China and Russia? simply banning both makes too much sense to not do it.


26 posted on 01/18/2008 8:52:14 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Gideon7
We recently banned all Chinese IP addrs at the firewall. We get less than 0.1% sales from China and most of those are stolen credit cards anyway. (We banned Russia years ago for the same reason.) .

That must be a massive database, though. I already hit the size limit for my .htaccess for my site denials..there are so many IP adresses. You must have to work on it constantly.

Any tips will be appreciated!

40 posted on 01/19/2008 4:14:11 AM PST by Gorzaloon
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