How to respond when redirect notices probing
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Every few days I look at the 404 log the Redirection plug-in generates. Some days there are long lists of attempts to reach, well, I’m not entirely certain what they are trying to reach, but it looks like some kind of attack.
Today’s example is:
/2014/06/05/2degrees-gives-wellington-customers-cbd-wi-fi/caravans.php
The first part is a legitimate page on my site. The “caravans.php” part never existed. The same ip address made hundreds of requests to a handful of non-existent pages with legitimate addresses followed by dozens of .php, .html or .cfm file names.
Clearly it’s a probing attack of some kind. How can I see them off and is there a way to harden the site against such attacks, presumably sooner or later someone is going to find some hole they can exploit?
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