Ok, it's me again. I've been checking the sampled logs on my cloudflare website and I've noticed some very particular requests:

Some context: I'm hosting my own static website (a personal blog) at home and serving it to the internet through a Cloudflare tunnel.

Upon inspecting them it seems like they are bots and web-crawlers trying to access directories and files that don't exist on my server, (since I'm not using wordpress). While I don't really have any credentials or anything to lose on my website and these attacks are harmless so far, this is kinda scary.

Should I worry? Is this normal internet behaviour? Should I expect even worse kinds of attacks? What can I do to improve security on my website and try to block these kinds of requests/attacks?

I'm still a noob, so this is a good opportunity for learning.

Thanks

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

That looks like the internet. Every server gets bombarded with these requests. Generally: Use good passwords, make sure your software blocks bots brute-forcing passwords, after some sane amount of tries... Keep everything updated...

If you want some more attacks, install a mailserver. Or expose VNC/Windows Remote Desktop or a VOIP server. That gets the bots really worked up.

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