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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-western">For many months I have been
troubleshooting webserver issues of the lockup variety. Error logs
sent me in several different directions until it all came
together. In this case a Netherlands IP was the culprit. I also
found one Ukrainian from an earlier log and, of course, the
crawlers from Palo Alto.
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I'd always thought little ole libraries like us were below the
radar when it came to hackers. Not so. In our case our Wordpress
was getting pounded on a particular php file used to link comments
from blogs to blogs (XMLRPC). The intruder kept hitting the door
to get in via the XMLRPC hole, effectively locking up the server
as it tried to respond to the repeated requests.
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Eventually looking in the right place, I found the trouble, a cure
and, coincidentally, Wordpress released a security update just one
day earlier. All applied and seem to be holding - so far.
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I pass it along FWIW.
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Dan<br>
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Daniel Nixon
Wilmington Public Library of Clinton County
268 N. South St., Wilmington, OH 45177
937-382-2417 x25</pre>
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