I just happened to notice whilst going through my server logs that someone has been making an attempt to hack this blog today!

They did not get far, so it seems. On the first attempt they gave up, presumably as the weakness that they were trying to exploit did not work and hopefully that means that they have gone elsewhere.

But, why does this show a sense of humour? Well they targeted their work on an individual post and that post was one of the blogging security series of posts that I wrote back in August.

It does not come as any surprise at all that such a series should be of interest to hackers. I am sure that they would love it if they had got in and had been able to corrupt my series in some way or other. But, I’ve carefully checked my server logs and it does seem there was only the one attempt and all logins to the admin system correlate to when I know I myself logged on.

So this time I seem to have escaped their attentions. Hopefully next time, and I am sure there will be a next time, I am so lucky as well. You can never just cross your fingers with blog security, you must protect your assets!

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