Blocking IP Addresses Using htaccess

I’m writing this because blocking by domain on my hosts pretty much kills my web site and so I have had to learn to block ip addresses. Blocking single ip addresses is simple as you just need something like the following

order allow,deny
deny from 9.120.161.206
allow from all

And that will block the computer [...]

May 15th, 2009 | , , , | Web Development, spam | Leave a comment

Sad Children Thinking They Are Hackers

A few days ago I installed the Bad Behavior plugin for Word Press just as an extra way of combatting spam comments etc. In 2 days it’s blocked 49 attempts by malicious scripts to access this blog. I just looked at the log and most of them are attempts to run a remote PHP script [...]

March 10th, 2009 | , , | Internet, Rants | 5 comments