I have a landing page setup for my business located at www.jdmxchange.com and ha
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I have a landing page setup for my business located at www.jdmxchange.com and have been getting some strange error logs from ELMAH. I apparently have users (or bots) in the Ukraine probing the hell out of my site. It seems they are trying to figure out what technology I have running under the hood. I get exceptions for invalid paths such as
.../wp-login
.../webalizer
.../js/javascriptfile.js
.../user
and so forth. At one point I received about 32 errors within a few minutes. This is my first time with a public-facing site and I am not sure which direction to go into reading up on making sure my site is secured. Can anyone point me to a good place to start?
Explanation / Answer
Requests like the ones you are seeing exist ubiquitously on the Internet. It's called "background radiation" and it's something that everyone with a public service has to deal with.
Don't worry about it. They are random probes looking for holes and if you have properly secured your site against this "background radiation", then you just weather it like everyone else. Assuming, of course, that you have secured your site against this type of threat.
If you are a startup, one of the investments you will have to make is to implement basic security, just like a new brick-and-mortar business would have to invest in locks and a security system. Contact a professional consultant to help you through that process.
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