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Now that my two cloud servers have been up and running long enough for scanners, hackers and other folks to find them. What is interesting is seeing what kind of hacker activity the two cloud servers are seeing, and how they are standing up to being exposed on the internet.

A bit about the servers, they are default AWS (Amazon Web Services) servers, using LAMP and on Linux. They have their own static IP’s and are in a subdomain off the primary domain that we are using. They provide LMS (Learning Management Systems), podcasting, and blogging platforms for people to use and share information. Some of that sharing is also free so we are doing an open training campus for folks to help them keep up with what is changing in the world of technology.

The first site in the system is our LMS system. This gets some scanning, but no real dedicated attempts at hacking the system. Most of the scanning is drive by and looking for specific directories that might contain vulnerable programs or systems. The scanning primarily consists of hackers looki