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Beat Hackers At Their Own Game With A Hackerbasher Site

At A Glance:

• Prevent automated attacks from reaching legitimate Web domains
  
• Automatically divert attacks into a dead end
  
• Get a single log that shows all attack traffic

In this article, a presenatation is given that will present an easily implemented strategy that uses HTTP 1.1 host headers to divert port 80 attacks away from unsecured public Web sites into a dead end where they can't do damage. The site, called Hackerbasher, stops the automated attack and records the details about the attack along with the IP address used by the attacker. Hackerbasher doesn't require any special software and its only cost is the time it takes to set it up on your server. You also get the added benefit of being able to monitor port 80 attacks in a single log file.

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