Brute Force

Bash script to block brute force attacks with .htaccess

Your site is under attack. May be not right now, but several times a day. Password guessing, security vulnerabilities - that kind of stuff. In the error log it looks like this:

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Ip address blocking service.

IpBlock EventViewer log entries

While experimenting with hosting options I tried an Amazon Cloud virtual machine among others to test hosting performance and ease of setting up Drupal on Windows compared to Linux shared hosting I use usually. Familiar Windows environment was pleasantly easy to configure, but failed to impress with server performance. After thorough disk space cleanup and uninstalling of extra applications I stumbled upon Event Log records of Brute Force attack attempts (Event Id 4625) that look similar to:

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