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I have set up a very basic website for my bushwalking club. I used Joomla and so have access to lots of good components for managing the site. One of these is a web traffic tool. When I look at the logs there are hundreds of hits from Beijing each week. Many (most?) of them have IP addresses that are very close to each other. What's this all about?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Do you have anything that they may want to copy?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Not that I can imagine,
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: What's this all about?
Hacking, Hijacking, whatever you like.
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Somebody over there is interested in bush? 
Why don't you ask them[^]? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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See if you can spot your URL Here[^]
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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Cool! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Cool!
But are they indeed attacks or simply requests? 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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The webiste info says that this are attacks rolling through their honeypot 
Quote: The attacks shown are based on a small subset of live flows against the Norse honeypot infrastructure, representing actual worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors
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HobbyProggy wrote: worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors
So Orlando Bloom and Colin Farell have decided to take over the world? 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Don't forget Nicholas Cage! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Johnny J. wrote: Don't forget Nicholas Cage!
I had forgotten him until you mentioned him! Now I've got to start forgetting him again! 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Not yet.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: hundreds of hits from Beijing each week
Given that the population of Beijing is greater than the membership of CP (but they're all active as Beijing residents all the time), you probably get higher per-capita percentage of hits from the Easter islands.
And don't you consider it somewhat racist to immediately assume that, because they're Chinese, they're doing evil?
I'd say that if only a few hundred people out of eleven million are interested in your hobby, then it's not the most popular of hobbies.
Open a web-site about Barbie dolls. You'll get a billion impressions a week from China.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: And don't you consider it somewhat racist to immediately assume that, because they're Chinese, they're doing evil?
Where have I suggested anything of the sort?
Internet access is not universal in China and much of the internet is blocked.
These hits started in large numbers from the first day the site went live. This in itself seems interesting because the IP addresses are always very close together.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: Internet access is not universal in China and much of the internet is blocked.
That's not nearly as true as certain vested interests would want you to believe.
There are more smartphones in use in China than just about anywhere else, and it's only "not universal" in tiny villages, a million miles from nowhere (quite a lot of China is barely populated; is there "universal Internet access" in the middle of spaghetti-western country, or the backwoods of Alaska?)
If you got a lot of hits just after start-up, then it was probably spiders for Baidu, etc, to make your web-site more easily available to searches. I dare say you got far more admin hits from google, yahoo, and the NSA, each of which would have hit the site multiple times from a small IP block.
Do bear in mind that you're talking about a country where a large chunk of the goods you use (including apple and other brand smartphones) are made; a billion people with TVs, smartphones, computers, etc. It's not some weird dictatorship, where everyone is spied on constantly by the government.
That description fits the US and UK better, these days.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Take no notice in Mark W's link below - anything that he perceives as even vaguely Sinophobic is cause for an immediate defensive posture.
He has a few other knee-jerk response patterns. Feel free to deduce and invoke them at your leisure.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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They are probably trying to guess a password by brute force. Or they are trying to find a vulnerability in your website.
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You replied to the wrong post !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Um....do an experiment.
Set up a new website.
Wonder why you immediately get thousands and thousands of hits from China, even before the site shows up on any search engine.
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You replied to the wrong post !
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Exactly
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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GenJerDan wrote: Wonder why you immediately get thousands and thousands of hits from China, even before the site shows up on any search engine.
Because it has to be spidered before it can show up on any search engine.
After seeing that happen, go to baidu.cn and search for terms relevant to the site.
Congratulations! You've been made available through the world's biggest search engine!
If your text isn't at least partly in Chinese, though, you'll drop off the rankings pretty quick, because Chinese surfers tend to like to read stuff in their own language.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nope.
We were talking about this the other day here. One of the guys set up a machine that wasn't even going to be a website, just a system that was going to feed another one across the country.
As soon as they turned it on, they were hit.
It's like there are systems out there that just continually go through all possible IP addresses and latch onto any that show active.
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And this tells you what?
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