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Network Status: Brute Force Attack

LPH

Flight Director
Flight Instructor
Network Status: Brute Force Attack

This server has been undergoing a brute force attack since last weekend. Plugins and modifications to .htaccess have been installed and blocked some attempts. While we have been able to slow down the usage of the resources, there are episodes in which the CPU is jammed for 15-20 minutes, thus taking down the server.

I apologize if the server is not available at all times. Monitoring continues but there are too many false IP addresses...
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LPH

Flight Director
Flight Instructor
Decided to switch to Cloudflare DNS and protection. We will see what happens.
 

LPH

Flight Director
Flight Instructor
Decided to switch to Cloudflare DNS and protection. We will see what happens.

Cloudflare is not stopping the brute force attack either - looks like they want $200/mo to stop any types of attacks.
 
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