break-in attempts on my server

Bob George mailings02 at ttlexceeded.com
Sun Nov 20 20:20:38 EST 2005


David Kramer wrote:

> [...]Thanks all. I guess it's best to just ignore it, now that I 
> tightened up
>
>ssh a little and ensured nothing actually got through.
>  
>
Keep in mind there have been exploits against ssh before. You might move 
it to a non-default, higher port just to avoid being trivial to 
discover, in addition to all the other measures. At least that way, a 
full discovery port scan will take a lot longer to complete.

- Bob



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