secret santa Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 Every day, Wordpress presents me with statistics of visits to my pennyvarieties website, indicating which country those visits are from. In the last 2 days, the majority of the visits have been from Russia ! I have never before seen any visits from Russia. Do we have a penny collector in Russia, I wonder, or is it some hacker looking for a way into the wicked West's computer systems ? Should we be worried ????? Quote
zookeeperz Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 (edited) 14 minutes ago, secret santa said: Every day, Wordpress presents me with statistics of visits to my pennyvarieties website, indicating which country those visits are from. In the last 2 days, the majority of the visits have been from Russia ! I have never before seen any visits from Russia. Do we have a penny collector in Russia, I wonder, or is it some hacker looking for a way into the wicked West's computer systems ? Should we be worried ????? Could it be looking for coins to forge? Plus anyone using a VPN can appear to be in any country and still be local. The age of privacy only way to surf securely these days Edited April 17, 2018 by zookeeperz Quote
jelida Posted April 17, 2018 Posted April 17, 2018 Perhaps your site has been mentioned on a Russian forum. What numbers are we talking about? From sunny Vladivostok. Not. Jerry 😉 1 Quote
secret santa Posted April 18, 2018 Author Posted April 18, 2018 8 hours ago, jelida said: What numbers are we talking about? 10 out of 24 on Monday, 12 out of 20 on Tuesday - a select bunch ! Quote
1949threepence Posted April 18, 2018 Posted April 18, 2018 22 hours ago, secret santa said: Every day, Wordpress presents me with statistics of visits to my pennyvarieties website, indicating which country those visits are from. In the last 2 days, the majority of the visits have been from Russia ! I have never before seen any visits from Russia. Do we have a penny collector in Russia, I wonder, or is it some hacker looking for a way into the wicked West's computer systems ? Should we be worried ????? Not any more. We're onto these Russians and their cyber shenanigans, now. Quote
Mr T Posted April 19, 2018 Posted April 19, 2018 On 4/17/2018 at 7:58 AM, secret santa said: Should we be worried ????? Probably not - a couple of years ago I got a bunch of site hits (from which country I no longer remember) but they had spoofed some field or other (browser language I think?) to be "VOTE TRUMP" - possibly something similar. Occasionally I see fake hits that just spam the referrer field with some site they're trying to advertise - again, possibly something similar. Quote
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