Re: SSH attacks?

From: Pieter-Bas IJdens (pieter-bas_at_ijdens.com)
Date: 07/29/04

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    Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:21:33 +0200 (CEST)
To: "Christine Kronberg" <Christine_Kronberg@genua.de>

    > Only after the first playround the test/guest attempts started so
    > I was starting to think that whoever was probing my host from Korea
    > was probably going with that. Now that my host is out of focus, I'm
    > really relieved. :-)

    If you are so worried about SSH security who don't you just run sshd on a
    non-standard port. Ever since I moved all externally listening ssh daemons
    to a different port I didn't get any ssh probes anymore (obviously). Got
    rid of all these ssh-worm attacks (good old days) in a second, and I
    personally don't mind supplying people a port number with their
    username/password. The same can be done for many other services that are
    not port-bound. Kindof takes the fun out of automated subnet scans.

      Pieter-Bas

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