Re: [MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server

2012-08-15 Thread Dan Fisher
Thanks! Looks like a great program/tool. I'll ask the server company. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Kevin Küper kevin.kue...@meypack.dewrote: Hi, Fail2ban is a nice tool for reacting against attacks. It can look into your Apache logfiles and search strange behaviour. You can define

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server

2012-08-14 Thread Kevin Küper
Hi, Fail2ban is a nice tool for reacting against attacks. It can look into your Apache logfiles and search strange behaviour. You can define cases digging for in those logfiles. And fail2ban creates rules in iptables for blocking specific addresses.  

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server

2012-08-13 Thread Jan Steinman
Like for many of us, my wiki is hosted on a shared server so I have to be careful about CPU usage. There's a hacker/attacker who has been recently flooding my wiki with malicious requests. His intentions may be... I feel your pain. Don't bother guessing intentions. Don't take it personally.

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server

2012-08-13 Thread Kieth Brian Padilla Tomo
On Aug 13, 2012, at 9:21 PM, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: Like for many of us, my wiki is hosted on a shared server so I have to be careful about CPU usage. There's a hacker/attacker who has been recently flooding my wiki with malicious requests. His intentions may be... I feel

Re: [MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server

2012-08-13 Thread Dan Fisher
I feel your pain. Don't bother guessing intentions. Don't take it personally. It's most likely just a bot, following some algorithm. (Well, unless you've done something to piss someone off, or if your wiki is highly controversial.) Yea, you got it, its a wiki that some people don't like. So I'm

[MediaWiki-l] Malicious DDOS attacks to increase CPU usage on shared server

2012-08-12 Thread Dan Fisher
Like for many of us, my wiki is hosted on a shared server so I have to be careful about CPU usage. There's a hacker/attacker who has been recently flooding my wiki with malicious requests. His intentions may be to just increase CPU usage, slow down the site, get it kicked off the server - or all