{"id":185034,"date":"2011-11-02T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/02\/an-interesting-solution-to-the-problem-of-phishing-and-hacking\/"},"modified":"2011-11-02T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:16:00","slug":"an-interesting-solution-to-the-problem-of-phishing-and-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/11\/02\/an-interesting-solution-to-the-problem-of-phishing-and-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interesting Solution to the Problem of Phishing and Hacking:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A web master has come to the conclusion that the first step in managing this sort of activity is to, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/shamao.typepad.com\/shamaoer\/2011\/10\/thought-this-was-interesting-i-run-quite-a-few-few-websites-and-blogs-and-my-solution-to-this-problem-was-first-to-block.html\">block all traffic from China<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>I run quite a few few websites and blogs and my solution to this problem was first to BLOCK all traffic from China, I allow nothing, nada, zip from China based IPs. From my personal experience 100% of China&#8217;s internet traffic is hacking attempts, email SPAM and phishing. I have never encountered a single China access that could be considered positive.<\/p>\n<p>Blocking China has solved about 80~90% of the problem. The second thing is to block specific domains and IPs from Russia, Romania, Brazil, Taiwan, Korea, Poland and may other ex Soviet Satellites. I can&#8217;t block all access to these countries because there is about 90% of legitimate traffic and the 10% left are probably compromised computers being used as proxies\/bots for China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I tried to find the original source for this and a <a href=\"http:\/\/lmgtfy.com\/?q=%22BLOCK+all+traffic+from+China%22\">quick google<\/a> indicates that there are a <b>significant<\/b> number of web masters who are beginning to consider this as a <b>first<\/b> step for web security on their sites.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I am not a webmaster, but I&#8217;m wondering just how wide spread this phenomenon is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A web master has come to the conclusion that the first step in managing this sort of activity is to, &#8220;block all traffic from China: I run quite a few few websites and blogs and my solution to this problem was first to BLOCK all traffic from China, I allow nothing, nada, zip from China &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,1060,997,1061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-computer","category-internet","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}