Re: SSH Password-Guessing Attacks
Peter Reutemann <[email protected]>
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> I suppose you know that if you put a machine on the Internet with an > SSH server listening on port 22, you are going to get bombarded with > password-guessing login attempts. > > Previously, I thought that moving the SSH server to a nonstandard port > was sufficient to block these. But now I am seeing these attacks > happening on my Rimu VPS anyway. Should I bother to change the port > again? Only allow key-based logins? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/ _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug