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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 07 February 2013 16:13 CST
I am getting quite a few login attempts that report the IP address as "1.0 tinyproxy (tinyproxy/1.8.2)" and a few other variants such as a double IP and these two show up quite a bit.
1.1 C3-ISA
1.1 cdcdanang
I was wondering if you could shed some light on what these are and is there a way to defend against them?
I assume you mean User Agent, not IP. You can google them up.
Tinyproxy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinyproxy
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
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Sorry Nic, looking at this again I see the report is coming from RSFirewall and it lists these as the IP. Is it possible to add "1.0 tinyproxy (tinyproxy/1.8.2)" as to the site blacklist IP list?
Here is how it looks.
Description: There was an unsuccessful attempt to login into the backend section of your website using an unknown username.
Alert level: medium
Date of event: 2013-02-07 10:38:56
IP address: 1.0 tinyproxy (tinyproxy/1.8.2)
User ID: 0
Username:
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Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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I know that and I know your plate is already full with your own extensions, I am asking about blocking this in Admin Tools is the reason I asked?
You can block specific user agents with the .htaccess Maker. That said, I would be very careful which user agents you want to block. For example, TinyProxy has a lot of legitimate uses. I wouldn't consider blocking this a very prudent idea. The other user agents, I couldn't find any information on them so probably you will be OK blocking them.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
Thanks Nic, as always you are a wealth of knowledge on the subject...
You're welcome :)
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
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