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My website monitors were going off the charts one day and I started investigating. Tons of SQL Injection attempts were flooding my servers. Without much difficu
by chimi 14y ago
My website monitors were going off the charts one day and I started investigating. Tons of SQL Injection attempts were flooding my servers. Without much difficulty, I tracked the IPs to a company that does security checking and reporting. I never requested such a test.
Later, that company sent me an email saying my site was insecure because they sent a SQL injection request and the response included lots of SQL. They wanted to sell me a comprehensive report and methodology to eliminate similar threats in the future.
Turns out, the SQL their threat detection system found was in a static html blog post where I was telling people how to build a particular type of SQL Statement. I did not purchase the "services" they were selling.
- ca98am79 14y agoNot only is it unethical that they scanned your server like that, but you could probably press charges or sue them for it, if you wanted.