On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Wilton Helm <[email protected]> wrote:
> >making sure to patch any holes through which the hacker might have come > > In my case, I had been getting regular attacks through SSH for months, > probably 100 a day (bots). Apparently after nine months of this, someone > stumbled on to my password which regrettably was composed of two dictionary > words with no special characters, making it susceptible to dictionary > search. > > When I re-installed, I put SSH on a non-standard port and haven't had a > single attempt to attack the system since. > > While its certainly not a good idea to rely on... security through obscurity can work very well :) -- Matt
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