[ILUG] Bloody script kiddies

[Niall O Broin]

Just had a look in the log file to which accesses to one of my web server
box's IP address goes i.e. requests not to one of the hosted domains. Since
Sept. there have been 23000+ attempts to get cmd.exe to do something and
4000+ attempts to find root.exe, and this is just on one lonely little box.
I wonder do script kiddies' attempts now use up more bandwidth than porn ?

And do some poor suckers actually have IIS boxes configured in such a way
that you can execute arbitray commands just by calling cmd.exe ?



Niall