Hack attempts: examples from the error.log file

Webserver logs contain a lot of useful information regarding the health of your website. Here is the error.log file for a site that I created a few years ago, and for which I still have access to.

Attempt to exploit timthumb vulnerability:

Attempt to brute force login:

Attempt to exploit phpMyAdmin:

Attempt to do a directory traversal attack to find passwords:

Wrong OS!

Jerome Segura

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