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I'm curious, and mainly ignorant about all things web,
could those "other requests" be legit activity by google/bing ?
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H. Lampert
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 11:36 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Is my 520 being hacked?
Yesterday, somebody mentioned that if a box runs a POP3 server, it's going to attract random spammer traffic.
I can also say that likewise if you have port 80 open, even if it doesn't actually serve web pages (e.g., it runs a web service instead), it's going to attract robotic web traffic. Our authorization code server runs on port 80, in order to maximize the chances that a customer will actually be able to reach it with one of our client programs, but only understands authorization code requests. It does, however, log every single request it receives, whether it understands it or not, and I don't think I've ever inspected one of its logs without seeing at least one request looking for a web page. Ususally, in fact, there are more of those than there are legitimate authorization code requests.
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JHHL
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