[PLUG] 16,000 login attempts from digitalocean

[Robert Citek]

Login to a web service, ssh, other?

If ssh, often the simplest and quickest solution is to switch to a
non-obvious port, adjusting any firewall rules on DO, if needed.

Regards,
- Robert


On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 7:44 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> Be careful what you write about powerful men, especially
> on the public PLUG lists.  I wasn't careful yesterday.
>
> My external server is getting dozens of login attempts per
> minute from an IP address associated with digitalocean.
> More than 10,000 so far, for at least 10 hours.  I hope
> I took the right steps to block the attempts.
>
> If you have a virtual server at digitalocean, let's talk
> about IP addresses.  You might need security help more
> than I do.
>
> Keith
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
>