[HECnet] Botnet hits on 23/tcp

[Johnny Billquist]

Nmap can figure it out for you. No need for humans.

  Johnny 


Robert Armstrong <bob at jfcl.com> skrev: (25 oktober 2016 19:19:20 CEST)
>> Alternate ports is not really any protection. 
>
>I'm not sure I agree.  99.97% (an arbitrarily made up but probably not
>too far off number :-) of the stuff you see on the Internet is bots and
>scripts, and these don't adapt to non-standard ports.  Breaking in
>would require a human to sit down and some time figuring out what I've
>done.  Admittedly it's not that hard, but the odds of a real person
>wanting to spend his time doing that is pretty small.
>
>Having said that, I also don't enable keyboard authentication on my ssh
>servers - it's public key/private key only.
>
>Bob

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