ThreatMap
Every computer connected to the internet gets scanned. Constantly. Automated bots crawl IP addresses looking for open ports, known vulnerabilities, anything they can exploit. This happens 24/7, to every server, everywhere. Modern operating systems handle most of it quietly. You just never see it.
After buying a dedicated server for some projects, I set up fail2ban to block the constant stream of automated scans and intrusion attempts. Then I thought - what if I could actually visualize all of this in real time? Show just how relentless these scans really are?
So I built ThreatMap. A 3D globe that lights up every time someone probes the server looking for a way in. The server has been online for two days when I first shared it, and in that time: 21,600+ total bans, 17,400+ in the last 24 hours alone, from 40+ countries. And that is just one server.