It’s Sunday, time for a security check.

So here it is another Sunday morning and it is time to do those security log reviews. As usual I found a few folks attempting to do evil upon the server here. The list is about the same as usual. Most of the attacks come from China, but there are a few coming from Kansas and California. Most of these were folks or bots, attempting to run scripts to gain access to the WordPress blog here. A few were just repeated attempts to access the machine itself.

These are not a big deal to me, but they do point out the fact that I run a very small and not well-known server and yet there are still folks trying to break in. So that being said, can you imagine the number of hacks being attempted right now on healthcare.gov? We have heard that their security wasn’t tested and now we must all wonder what information is being compromised on a daily basis. A huge site like that will be a target for scammers looking for email addresses, financial data and information that most folks would rather not have sent out to the world.

Based on what I see looking at my logs on a daily basis, I wouldn’t register, log in to or give any information to the government at this stage. I strongly discourage everyone from signing up, lest they become a victim of what will probably become the biggest security breach in the history of the internet. Most folks don’t review their log files on their PC’s or tablets, mainly because their just isn’t a whole lot of logging on Windows computers and Android tablets. Their are of course firewalls but you can’t simply turn off all connections or the device becomes rather useless. The folks working on the healthcare website can’t even get us statistics on visitors and registrations, so how thorough do you think they are on security? They might get it fixed someday, but until they publish the results of some independent security testing I would suggest avoiding the site entirely.

And now without further interruption, here is the list of bad apples for this week, by IP and location.
36.248.47.164 China
218.6.70.198 China
142.54.184.142 Kansas, USA
220.250.61.231 China
216.99.159.114 Calif, USA
210.245.52.33 Vietnam
192.151.155.114 Kansas, USA
218.6.70.198 China
192.74.250.4 Calif, USA
192.187.109.90 Kansas, USA
110.86.69.79 China
120.37.230.57 China

You may now return to your regularly scheduled surfing,
Tim

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