https://vllmr.org/tags/til/ Recent content in TIL on My Blog Hugo en Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:52:02 +0000 https://vllmr.org/blog/knock-knock-block-bots/ Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:52:02 +0000 https://vllmr.org/blog/knock-knock-block-bots/ <p>Someone shared this cool site on Hacker News: <a href="https://knock-knock.net/" class="link--external" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" >https://knock-knock.net/</a>.</p> <p>It&rsquo;s a honey pot with the purpose of identifying malicious actors on the internet and then publicly sharing the list of their IP addresses.</p> <p>Since I&rsquo;m hosting my own site, I&rsquo;ve seen how many bots are hitting my poor server. Number one on the list of 404 errors is a request to <code>/wp-admin/install.php?step=1</code> &ndash; 10 times as many hits as the next entry. It&rsquo;s clearly an attempt to pwn web servers whose careless admins left an uninitialized WordPress instance exposed to the internet.</p>