How Do You Find A Hackers IP Address?
If someone hacks your website, the result can be anything from a minor annoyance, such as comment spam, to hate speech or obscene graphics that can get you into serious legal trouble. As soon as you see evidence of hacking, change the password you use when you upload content, either by Web-based access or FTP. Make certain only people you trust, who actually need administrative access, know the password. It’s also possible to identify a hacker’s numerical address and keep him out of your website. Let’s say you have a Web page called “about.php” and you notice that someone hacked into and defaced it between noon and 3 p.m. Eastern time. None of your other pages are affected. If it’s available to you under your website hosting plan, download your server log file. The log file is probably quite large, and you might need to unzip it. A server log is a plain text file consisting of lines like this: 000.000.000.000 – – [13/Oct/2009:13:51:31 -0600] “GET /about.php HTTP/1.1” 200 3286 “-” “goog
