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by tgv 944 days ago
I sometimes take a look at the logs, but nowadays there's a lot of noise from "security" companies that scan probably all IP addresses and all ports with known vulnerabilities. And they do it the lazy way. They just fire a bunch of URLs at each port that responds: long hexadecimal URLs, wordpress admin end-points, oauth end-points, etc. In the beginning, they even sent emails to tout their services.

We use one of them for ISO certification. Twice a year, we turn on their "vulnerability scanner", which says its test over x-thousand vulnerabilities, we get a report, and everybody is happy. Only on the first run did it discover a small error in the nginx config. Unfortunately, it is theater.