July
20

Your Log Files are Showing!

by David Merrick

Apache, the most widely-used web server on the internet, keeps its traffic log entries  in an access.log file inside each domain folder. These are files that you don’t want anyone but your sysadmin looking at because they expose all of your visitor’s private IP addresses, yet thousands of domains have their pants down in this regard. Google this to find thousands of fresh, exposed traffic log files: filetype:log inurl:access.log.

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