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April 17, 2006 at 08:45 PM
southernwolf

Identifying attacking computers

by southernwolf . Updated 20 years, 2 months ago

I run a php based website and I frequently receive email notifications of various attacks on my site, script, admin, author, etc. I have good site protection using NukeSentinel? which blocks attackers and emails me, such emails contain the IP of the attacker although this may be spoofed. My question is: Is there a way to obtain the unique machine identification of an attacking computer so that coupled with the IP the location of an attacker can be precisely situated, down to the city and street address? I ask this out of curiosity mainly though it would be nice to know that a specific attacker, say, lived on the third floor of a certain house in Amsterdam!

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