Spero Consulting

For the last six weeks or so, we’ve seen a huge increase in the num­ber of inter­net hack­ing attempts of our site.

We don’t take it per­son­ally, and we doubt those attempts are related to any­thing that we do or say, but we have very nice ways to track both “eye­balls” and robot vis­its to this site; so, we notice such things. We’re sur­prised that the trend at our site, which we first observed in the begin­ning of Novem­ber, seems to be accel­er­at­ing in recent weeks. (If we did take it per­son­ally, we’d be a bit flattered.)

Here’s a sam­ple from one of our sta­tis­tics pack­ages from early this morning:

While there are a few legit­i­mate queries on the list, notice the attempts to access data­bases and upload files.

The best that we can deter­mine, and we’re no expert on the sub­ject, most of those attempts come from bots in China. (If they are not from China, then some­one is spoof­ing Chi­nese addresses and host­ing ser­vices because when we click on the blue num­bers shown above, we get “whois” reports, and they all spec­ify Chi­nese locations.)

To us, it is a reminder to keep strong pass­words, run server and appli­ca­tion exploit scan­ners, and deal with a qual­ity host­ing firm that’s look­ing out for us, in our case that’s Fused Net­work.