[PLUG-TALK] Increased System Probes/Cracking Attempts

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Apr 28 16:57:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Paul Mullen wrote:

> Do you have a compelling reason to run your sshd on port 22?

Paul,

   Nope.

> 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.

   Sound advice. I'll go read what is involved at both ends and make the
changes.

   The sshd attempts all fail, but usually are few in number. It is the port
scanning attempts that greatly increased yesterday which is the most
noticeable change.

Rich



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