idiot trying to hack my site

[Reier]

so i have this website that i registered a domain and hosting for etc over thanksgiving which isn't finished or ready to show to the public yet, but is live. i'm going to use it to host my webcomic. haven't had time to work on it much yet but i've installed security plugins and such to hopefully make it a pain to have unscrupulous individuals take it over.

it's working so far. over christmas i got a ton of emails saying there was this nerd trying to login to my site repeatedly under administrator usernames and such. my security plugin auto-bans IPs for failed attemps like these, but he keeps going at it by switching IPs every time. Either he is the world's best drag racer and hacker combo dream, or his constant switching of IPs around russia and brazil tell me he's got some auto-program trying to crack this thing. that and he's been going it for days on end which tells me the only other alternative is for him to be a terminator. except terminators i think were good with computers.
the thing is, he's picked probably the single worst way to try to take over the site. he's trying to login via 'admin', which for one I'm not sure actually exists by that name on my site, and two, my plugin auto-kicks anyone who even tries to login by that username. even if he did get the pass right it wouldn't let him on, lmao

so, nearly three days later and he's still going at it, with a failed attempt being emailed to me on average every 7 minutes. i have a couple hundred of these emails so far, and i'm less worried about having the website compromised as i am in my beloved pet's state of well-being. i've named my hacker Jean-Pierre. In my mind he is a 34-year old unemployed french man who lives in his mother's basement and eats potato chips off his chest all day. he just took a hacking course on wiki-answers.com and has his hacking program 'Hack-EZ' he downloaded off CNet in the background trying to take over my site and the US air force's on his 2002 Dell Inspiron while he plays COD. In frustration, he notices that yet another of his Xbox controllers has stopped working, no doubt due to the half pound mass of potato chip dust wedged inside. He thinks about going to the local gamestop to get another but realizes that means he will have to get up and he was close to breaking a new personal record in lethargy. without thinking much at all, he lies there idly and eventually goes to sleep to the glow of his tv. another day well spent.


so yeah idk i thought this experience was funny but wow i am getting sick of all these emails

[Silverfish]

LOL
Also, couldn't you just configure your email to ignore/delete the spam?

[Reier]

well maybe but unless it goes on for way way too long i want to see in case someone actually competent comes along and tries to crack the site

[Pwnator]

Is that Fail2Ban? Pretty sure you can disable the email alert, but an even better way to shut down that idiot for good is to implement a CAPTCHA login.

[Reier]

Is that Fail2Ban? Pretty sure you can disable the email alert, but an even better way to shut down that idiot for good is to implement a CAPTCHA login.

pretty sure hes trying to login directly via ftp so i dont think that would stop him

[Pwnator]

Can you edit the vsftpd port? Or are some of the site's functions dependent on port 21?

[Reier]

Can you edit the vsftpd port? Or are some of the site's functions dependent on port 21?

i admit that i am not the most knowledgeable about these sort of things. I haven't, am not sure how, and not sure if I would want to. I'm pretty much figuring this out as I go. i know even less about editing the /etc folder and ssh than i do ftp, which is very little.

[Meganerdbomb]

Probably just a Chinese robot tbh.

[Baconus_Yum]

Probably just a Chinese robot tbh.

Trying to advertise random colleges nobody has heard of.

[frezal]

It's Vladimir Putin himself! #pizzagate

[Dreamcast]

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