more hours spent today setting up some software I have used in the past,
to detect and block the
(1) hundreds of attempts daily to find hackable scripts / software on the site
(2) hundreds of attempts daily to send spam to or via the site

Just to give you an idea, here's a map with the ~ 400 hack attempts against the email software
in the last 12 hours or so




(note: these are all from different sources, every attempt is blocked instantly)

(the map was created with amcharts)

How much has this changed in the last 10-20 years
i suppose defenses have hardened considerably

both offense and defense have increased significantly

more DDOS / AI crawler load, for example, over the past 5 days:

more than 130,000 requests for the forum FAQ page (!) from about 500 different computers.

below the map showing how many were from each country.

I've set something up so any computer visiting that page is automatically blocked (so don't try )

Nothing from China?

seems so, for this "run".

no idea where all these PCs are being controlled from though, could be anywhere.