Attacks Summary

Due to the increased Interest and attacks to this site, by those like, Google, Trend Micro inc, Melbourne IT and recently the Australian High Tech Crime Centre (AHTCC), I have listed the IP addresses and other useful information from my logs(was not intended originally to be public). This information is for the Curious, hackers, developers, people interested in bad sites and or people wanting to expand their knowledge.
This will allow those with the ability or curiosity, the chance to change or educate while increasing overall security.

Profit

Many sites experience attacks on a regular basis.
Some are of more interest, if its a challenge or easy enough to gain access where they can profit from such an attack.

Finger Printing

These attacks can probe sites from many sources. Most to test the waters to find a weakness.

Spidering

This is probably the most annoying for everyone, from the Web site owner to the users. Persistant spidering increases bandwidth (for the website owner) and slows things down for the user, increasing overall costs.

Some people/sites download entire websites, like a bank to mimic that site.
This can be used to find a weakness within the code, steal traffic or infect home computers for passwords.
Most will try to inject code into other peoples sites, to gain control, or to insert links, so other sites can STEAL traffic from legitimate ones.

Another popular one is to steal Keywords (used by search engines like google) from a popular site, to again steal traffic from the original site.

New Hackers and Developers

Whether you like it or not, we need Hackers and developers, some good (white hats) some bad, (black hats) most good ones were bad and know what to look for.
Some people are just testing new skills and wont be listed here. These people have shown me some very interesting ways to attack and probe websites and databases.
This information is then used to reinforce the site or counter attack against them.

Spam and Special notes

Some of the IP addresses listed as SPAM ARE Servers, though some are on a dynamic ip through a standard ?DSL connection and may be a zombie.

Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) through the AHTCC is responsible for the upcoming ISP enforcements on Internet Filtering.