I received a notification that someone was trying to hack into NCRenegade.com:
16 failed login attempts (4 lockout(s)) from IP 197.34.226.18 and it was blocked for 24 hours
Last user attempted: ncrenegade
Although the attack appears to have originated in London, I will never know for sure since anything can be spoofed.
David DeGerolamo
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Tracing route to host-197.34.226.18.tedata.net [197.34.226.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms LINKSYS04976 [192.58.158.103]
2 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 172.18.48.1
3 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms 66.119.99.1
4 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 10.0.62.1
5 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms 192.34.172.217
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 96 ms 96 ms 96 ms ae-1-3110.edge3.London1.Level3.net [4.69.140.198]
8 150 ms 170 ms 150 ms TELECOM-EGY.edge3.London1.Level3.net [217.163.45.234]
9 159 ms 159 ms 159 ms 10.38.125.70
10 160 ms 160 ms 160 ms 10.38.82.14
11 160 ms 160 ms 161 ms 10.38.113.97
I would enable 2 factor authentication if you can. While not bullet proof it does help.
You may be right DG. I don’t know what you or anyone else has done to attract such attention but, it would appear that someones tender feeling have been bruised. I figure it will only get worse.
PLA, CIA, FBI, DOJ… the possibilities are endless.
Nice! Touching a nerve. You know what they say… when you start taking flak, you’re over the target.
OPEN THE BOMB BAY DOORS!
“TELECOM-EGY”
197.34.226.18
ARIN points WHOIS for this IP to AFRINIC
AFRINIC says route: 197.34.224.0/19
descr: Telecom-Egypt-Data
Giza, Egypt
Traffic is no doubt routed through London, but the IP is registered to Egypt.
I saw Cape Town also which is why I put the disclaimer in the post.
Undoubtedly using a VPN and or (more likely) Tor. Make sure you have key (only) based auth into,the root system and have 2FA on the admin accounts.
Your partner Wes can vouch for me as being a fellow system operator. If you ever want to talk shop, I’m happy to help.
Consider also that it may be the Chinese. I strongly suspect that they have been blaming the Russians for years, and the Chinese have the money, people, and knowledge to spoof anything.
Whenever a liberal (communist) can’t beat you they try to destroy you.
NCrenegade is kryptonite to these bottom dwellers. Keep it up.
Transferring control to bombadier