cracking attempts coming from 209.239.43.18.

It seems that your forums are trying to be cracked. Well at least the usernames. I have tons of forum accounts over the internet with very easy to guess usernames, usually austin.

Well I have been getting emails from all these forums saying my account has been locked because someone has tried to login more than 5 times in a row unsuccessfully. It emails with the originating IP address and I have tried calling and contacting the company hosting the website that has tried to hack into my account on all these different forums. It ALWAYS originates from the following IP: 209.239.43.18.

I have also contacted the company that the IP address comes from. The company is navisite.com and there phone number is 978-946-5800

Do you have any suggestions for shutting down these cracking attempts? I'm sure it is happening to tons of members and not just me.

This might be more useful.

root@spider:~# whois 209.239.43.18

OrgName: Alabanza, Inc.
OrgID: ALAB
Address: 10 East Baltimore St., 10th floor
City: Baltimore
StateProv: MD
PostalCode: 21202
Country: US

NetRange: 209.239.32.0 - 209.239.63.255
CIDR: 209.239.32.0/19
NetName: ALABANZA-BALT-1
NetHandle: NET-209-239-32-0-1
Parent: NET-209-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.ALABANZA.COM
NameServer: NS2.ALABANZA.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 1998-05-20
Updated: 2000-01-26

RTechHandle: TC12-ARIN
RTechName: Cunningham, Thomas
RTechPhone: +1-410-779-1400
RTechEmail: ipadmin@alabanza.com

OrgTechHandle: DLE60-ARIN
OrgTechName: Lee, Dong
OrgTechPhone: +1-410-779-1400
OrgTechEmail: donglee@alabanza.com

OrgTechHandle: TECHS24-ARIN
OrgTechName: Tech Support
OrgTechPhone: +1-410-779-1400
OrgTechEmail: ipadmin@alabanza.com
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-06-01 19:10
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Bots like these have been hitting forums around the net for a long time now, and it's definitely not the first time it's happened on CF either. That's why it's always important to choose a password that's at least not something like "password", one that can be guessed within 5 guesses (before the cracker is locked out for 15 minutes).

IP banned btw.