[PLUG-TALK] Increased System Probes/Cracking Attempts

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Wed Apr 28 16:42:18 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 06:18:01AM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> Is there anything I can do to discourage these attempts

Do you have a compelling reason to run your sshd on port 22? I moved
mine to an arbitrary high port and ssdh attacks dropped to zero. It's
no extra hassle to log in on the non-standard port.

-- 
Paul



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