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		<title>Weird requests on the website</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking at the stats for mimor.be and I was a bit surprised to see these easy attempts to compromise data from the website. There were several 404 errors returned on files with names such as: /packet.mdb /wwwroot.zip /shop.rar /shop.zip /site.rar /web.rar /web.zip /www.zip /www.rar /tomdb.mdb /shop.mdb /shoes.rar /wwwroot.rar /HSH.mdb /site.zip /HYTop.mdb The fact [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was looking at the stats for mimor.be and I was a bit surprised to see these easy attempts to compromise data from the website.<br />
There were several 404 errors returned on files with names such as:</p>
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<li>/packet.mdb</li>
<li>/wwwroot.zip</li>
<li>/shop.rar</li>
<li>/shop.zip</li>
<li>/site.rar</li>
<li>/web.rar</li>
<li>/web.zip</li>
<li>/www.zip</li>
<li>/www.rar</li>
<li>/tomdb.mdb</li>
<li>/shop.mdb</li>
<li>/shoes.rar</li>
<li>/wwwroot.rar</li>
<li>/HSH.mdb</li>
<li>/site.zip</li>
<li>/HYTop.mdb</li>
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<p><span id="more-207"></span>The fact that some people put effort &amp; time in such web-crawling means that they have results on this.<br />
So folks, plz stop putting database-files &amp; backup-files in your publicly-accessible folders! This is the only remedy against such &#8220;attacks&#8221;.</p>
<p>Whilst I&#8217;m on web-security, let me remind you of some other dangerous things when hosting a website:</p>
<ul>
<li>Use SFTP instead of FTP!  (FTP sends data &amp; passwords unencrypted over the big bad Internet).</li>
<li>Do not use password protected directory&#8217;s on Microsoft IIS servers.</li>
<li>Manage Database and web/ftp users on a strict base. (unused logins should be removed).</li>
<li>Keep an eye on the log-files of the server.</li>
<li>If you don&#8217;t know how to program, first learn it!</li>
<li>Be careful when installing plug-ins/scripts from someone else. First review the code and user comments on it!</li>
<li>Remove unused packages/software/scripts from the server, they might form a major security leak.</li>
<li>Do not put passwords and other personal data on free webhosting spaces.</li>
<li>Be careful what tools you use. Some, such as Filezilla store usernames, passwords and other valuable credentials in an xml file (clear text) in an unencrypted directory.</li>
<li>etc &#8230;</li>
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<p>These are security issues that are verry common, as most people tend  to think that a safe hosting/code is enough to secure a website.</p>
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