On 1/24/07, Richard de Vries <richard_devries@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have modsecurity running on my apache instances, and I often see all kinds of IIS exploits hitting my box. This then gives me time to look thru my various apache and firewall logs, and take some corrective measures like for instance slapping some IPTables rules on the box to block that IP.
Have you looked at some of the previous threads on this topic? I'm guessing no. Have you ever investigated how many people who DO NOT hide their apache Server identity also get hit by huge quantities of IIS attacks? The number is close to 100% from my observations. Here's the trick: There are basically two types of "crackers" you need to worry about, script-kiddies, and sophisticated hackers. The first type will try every possible exploit on every server they can find; they rarely if ever bother to look at the Server header or anything else. The latter type can easily figure out what kind of server you're running very unobtrusively whether or not you display the Server header. So in neither case will hiding the Server header buy you anything at all. Your argument seems to be that there may be a small number of crackers in between those two groups that might be delayed by a few minutes if you hide your Server header. I don't see any evidence that such crackers actually exist. And even if they did, your time would be much better spent worrying about real security issues than putting a tiny roadblock in their way. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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