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Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by kid to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

I had a little linux server years ago and after a setup forgot to change my SSH port. One day I noticed my network was slow and after poking around realized that I had someone knocking at my port trying pass after pass with like 15 - 30 sec between attempts, watched this person for 2 days laughing at the 8-10 char passwords they were using, my password was a sentence. I then shifted the port to the 30k range and all was silent on my ports, always remember to change default ports, fun times