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#14987 security exceptions

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 11 February 2013 05:29 CST

Monday, 11 February 2013 03:55 CST

rajeshdungrani

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Description of my issue: I keep on getting these kind of errors from different ips and different username and password "IP Address: 218.93.127.117 (IP Lookup: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php?ip=218.93.127.117)
Reason: Login failure (Username: Fiepecleact -- Password: 29zsvsqZ3Z)

cleardot.gif" When I checked user manager, there are no accounts with such names. Might these be some attackes?   Also " IP Address: 173.44.37.226 (IP Lookup: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php?ip=173.44.37.226) Reason: CSRF Shield" Infact for one of my site, I have received around 200 "CSRF Shield" exceptions in last 24 hours. Is it wise to disable that option

Monday, 11 February 2013 04:00 CST

nicholas

Yes, it looks like someone is trying random usernames and passwords. If you have set up the automatic IP block they will also get automatically blocked so there is nothing to worry about.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Monday, 11 February 2013 04:04 CST

rajeshdungrani

Also I keep on getting this exception " IP Address: 173.44.37.226 (IP Lookup: http://ip-lookup.net/index.php?ip=173.44.37.226) Reason: CSRF Shield"

Infact for one of my site, I have received around 200 "CSRF Shield" exceptions in last 24 hours. Is it wise to disable that option

Monday, 11 February 2013 04:35 CST

nicholas

I need to know the Target URL as well before I can answer that question within any degree of accuracy :)

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!

Monday, 11 February 2013 05:05 CST

rajeshdungrani

Please find the target url:

http://mobilerepairsolutions.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3626:nokia-c5-all-hardware-solution&catid=1078:hotsolutions&Itemid=677

Monday, 11 February 2013 05:20 CST

nicholas

Is the URL you pasted the Target URL showin in Admin Tools' security exceptions log?

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!

Monday, 11 February 2013 05:22 CST

rajeshdungrani

Yes. Also there were many spamm comments on this url which i just deleted

Monday, 11 February 2013 05:29 CST

nicholas

You just replied it yourself. The CSRFShield security exceptions were raised by spam bots which tried using a very crude way to post spam comments on your site. The rest of the spam comments were those submitted by humans (you can rent a human spammer for as low as 0.01$ per message – sad, but true) or more sophisticated, purpose built spam bots. These are legitimate security exceptions so you'd better leave that feature turned on on your site.

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!

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