Hacker attacks on the rise (Its those damn American’s mostly, attacking us poor Chinese users)

I’ve noticed a lot more hacker attacks in the logs for the servers we maintain recently.
This is probably due to more people using Botnets for attack scan’s.

What are the hackers looking for, and how can we prevent them getting in?

In most cases, the hackers are looking for vulnerabilities in common applications.  The most notorious of these would be things like PHPBB, WordPress, and other similar apps.  The most common attacks we are noticing these days are ones that leverage remote inclusion of files.
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