Admin Access Attempts

[hex1848]

I was looking over the server logs for Cigarsmokers.com last night, and noticed someone was scanning the site for pages that grant administrative access. Why in the world would anyone try to do something like that without malicious intentions?

I took note of the IP address of the requests and on a hunch cross referenced it with IP addresses that members have used to access the site. To my surprise a user has posted here with that IP address before: PassThis. I asked the administrator of another well respected cigar forum if anyone had used this IP address in the past. He said, why yes, Rod, from Cigarpass.

error_log.1141776000:[Tue Mar 7 20:31:29 2006] [error] [client 216.165.244.XXX] File does not exist: /cigarsmokers.com/admin
error_log.1141776000:[Tue Mar 7 20:31:36 2006] [error] [client 216.165.244.XXX] File does not exist: /cigarsmokers.com/administration
error_log.1141776000:[Tue Mar 7 20:32:08 2006] [error] [client 216.165.244.XXX] script not found or unable to stat: /cigarsmokers.com/admin.php

I sent Rod an email with a copy of the log posted above last night at 12:33 AM EST. You would think someone presented with that kind of information would like to have had this straightened out by now.

I think this community as well as yours deserves an explanation. We are all Brothers of the Leaf here. This kind of breach of trust is detrimental to the spirit of our brotherhood.

[nhcigarfan]

That is disturbing, and pathetic.

[drew_goring]

Classless and embarassing for cigarpass as a whole.

edit to remove a hasty decision until I see this whole mess pan out...

[Baron Porthos]

Thats nuts

[slcraiders]

Bullshit in it's purest form!!!

[Cigar Jack]

A shame, you think they'd know better.

[PassThis]

Hex,

In response to this thread, I'd appreciate you getting the facts straight rather than simply trying to make me out to be "malicious". Now for the rest of you, here's what happened... My friend who came over yesterday offered to help me apply updates to my site. He doesn't know what the admin url is, and I was on the phone. I told him to go to my bookmarks and go to THE CIGAR site. Not knowing which one it was, and me being preoccupied, he went to the wrong site, and by the time I came back in, he tried to log into cigarsmokers multiple times, instead of cigarpass.

I apologize for any suspicions this may have caused, especially with all of this other crap going on. However, I really don't appreciate you taking this incident and using it to make me look like I was in the wrong. Had I seen your email earlier, I would have responded to it! I receive over 250 emails a day, most of which are junkmail, and yours was directed to my junkmail folder. After being made aware of this thread, I have scanned my outlook junk folder and found the email from you. As a TRUE Brother of the Leaf, I am disappointed with this entire situation, and it goes beyond this particular thread. I'm sure you know what I'm referring to.