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#18516 Security Exception Notifications - Critical Mass Notification

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 13 December 2013 10:42 CST

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 Occasionally I'll get a large brute force attempt where they're varying up IP addresses.

Do you know of any good way to set up to receive a notification when there's a certain threshold of email notifications?

I have several sites that are feeding me security notfications and over time, it becomes a signal to noise ratio. A lot of times it's just users entering the wrong password, but when I get 1000 emails in a 1 hour period, that's a sign that something's going on.

I would love a feature where you could get a specifically worded email that I could trigger some sort of IFTTT action for if I have a high volume of security exceptions going on.

Thanks for the great software you write!

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
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Hi Winston,

There is no such feature and I'm not planning to implement one due to the performance impact. Every time there is an exception recorded it would have to run a count query with a "between" keyword on a date field. Checking for a time period in MySQL is relatively slow. Now consider using it when your server is under attack, i.e. the CPU and hard drive are working overtime, your operating system has started swapping out to disk grinding everything down to a halt and the server on the verge of collapsing. What you need is to spend as little time as possible on each request, not double that time.

So, while I could easily implement this feature, it would end up killing your site when you need and just marginally slow it down when you don't need it. No gain, only pain :(

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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