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#27916 geolocation - how is work?

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Latest post by on Saturday, 08 July 2017 17:17 CDT

Thursday, 08 June 2017 04:37 CDT

marvays
Hi. I have much websites of any joomla version. On all of them i use admin tools. All of them have turned on geo location. my setup this is continent (America, Africa . . . all withou Europe.) But coming emails with blocking IP, if any hacekr or bot try login to my website. How bot from USA can 3x login to my admin, if i have blocked all ip from america?

Does it look like I do not get the GEO Block function right?

PS: Sry for my bad english.

Thursday, 08 June 2017 04:59 CDT

nicholas
You are both right and wrong - but it's not your fault, it's a quirk of how Joomla! works. Due to the internal workings of Joomla! processing the login takes precedence over running system plugins. This means that Admin Tools doesn't have the chance to run GeoBlocking BEFORE Joomla! tries to log in the user. That's why you get a message about a login attempt.

However, no need to be alarmed! No matter if the attacker did manage to guess the username and password correctly or not, Joomla! simply flows through to the next plugin event which is GeoBlocking. As a result Admin Tools blocks the attacker. From the attacker's perspective, they would have no idea whether the attack succeeded or not. All they can see is that they are getting blocked.

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!

Thursday, 08 June 2017 05:06 CDT

marvays
nice. now i can turn off email report for it :)

Thursday, 08 June 2017 05:55 CDT

nicholas
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!

Saturday, 08 July 2017 17:17 CDT

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