{"id":415,"date":"2015-03-20T08:47:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2015-03-20T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T12:47:28","slug":"how-to-stop-attacks-on-your-site-via-iis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/how-to-stop-attacks-on-your-site-via-iis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop attacks on your site via IIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often we see hack-bots or other automated hacking tools crawling our sites and hammering various pages looking for vulnerabilities.\u00a0 There is an easy way to put a stop to this through Microsoft IIS 7.0 (and later).<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you have the &#8220;IP Address and Domain Restrictions&#8221; module loaded in IIS (if not, install it.)<\/p>\n<p>Launch it and add a DENY entry.<\/p>\n<p>If the attacker is coming from AAA.BBB.CCC.49, I usually put a range block in there from<\/p>\n<p>AAA.BBB.CCC.0 to AAA.BBB.CCC.254<\/p>\n<p>At that point I usually restart the server because I&#8217;ve noticed that these blocks do not tend to take effect until (at minimum) the whole IIS process is restarted.\u00a0 Restarting the box works for me.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks blocked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often we see hack-bots or other automated hacking tools crawling our sites and hammering various pages looking for vulnerabilities.\u00a0 There is an easy way to put a stop to this through Microsoft IIS 7.0 (and later). Make sure you have the &#8220;IP Address and Domain Restrictions&#8221; module loaded in IIS (if not, install it.) Launch it and add a DENY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classic-asp","category-iis-tips-n-tricks","category-windows-server"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amixa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}