...after a bit more investigation, here's my /etc/hosts.deny, based on the 25,000 attempts in the last month!
On Thu, September 15, 2005 10:49 pm, Steve Holdoway wrote: > I was just checking the entry that Wesley needs in his /etc/fstab to get > /mnt/cdrom to start up without error, and was grepping for cd in dmesg, > when I didn't get the matches I expected. > > It seems that I've got on to some list or other, and about a dozen clients > out there have been attempting by brute force to break in to my system... > 10,000 attempts on my poor ssh daemon since the 11th! That's 2,500 per day > on an ihug dsl line. > > I recommend that anyone out there who allows any kind of access from the > outside world check their logs, and make sure that they've got decent > passwords, etc in place. > > My usual ostrich approach may soon become inappropriate! > > Cheers, > > Steve. > > -- > Windows: Where do you want to go today? > MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? > Linux: Are you coming or what? > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
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