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#26229 Security Exception from my own IP

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 02 November 2016 18:20 CDT

user76287
 Hello,

I am getting the following Security Exception for the last few weeks:

Hello,
We would like to notify you that a security exception was detected on your site, BMB Technology, with the following details:
IP Address: 176.232.238.99 (IP Lookup: IP Lookup)
Reason: Admin Query String
If this kind of security exception repeats itself, please log in to your site's back-end and add this IP address to your Admin Tools's Web Application Firewall feature in order to completely block the misbehaving user.
Best regards,
The BMB Technology team


This is my IP!! It happens usually in the middle of the night when everyone is asleep. There is only 1 computer in the house. The logs show that the attack is trying to access the back end /administrator/index.php . Thanks to admin tools I have a security key.

I searched through other tickets and see that this happened to another user. Your reply was something similar to Admin Tools protected you as the attack did not know the extra key needed to get to the login page.

OK but I am dying to know what is causing this? What are some of the possibilities?

tampe125
Akeeba Staff
Hello,

this usually happens when your browser tries to fetch a screenshot of the most used sites.
Since it won't pass the secret param, you'll get a security exception. In such cases, it's best to remove the secret param and use the extra backend password feature.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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